xeus-cling VS preplish

Compare xeus-cling vs preplish and see what are their differences.

xeus-cling

Jupyter kernel for the C++ programming language (by jupyter-xeus)

preplish

A Perl 5 REPL written in Bash (by viviparous)
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xeus-cling preplish
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2,913 4
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5.3 5.0
3 months ago 6 months ago
C++ Perl
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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xeus-cling

Posts with mentions or reviews of xeus-cling. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-27.

preplish

Posts with mentions or reviews of preplish. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-27.
  • Interactive GCC (igcc) is a read-eval-print loop (REPL) for C/C++
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2023
    > what's wrong with that?

    Why nothing at all, of course. A REPL need not be more than a way to test and explore syntax, functions, and logical structures.

    > the user experience is REPL-ish and it can help some people learn the _basics_ of the language

    PREPLISH exists for Perl ^_^

    https://github.com/viviparous/preplish

  • Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2022
    This is a simple REPL project and the readme lists other Perl REPLs.

    https://github.com/viviparous/preplish

    Perl's concise syntax makes working in a REPL a pleasure. Python has a REPL but the design of the language makes it expand both in length (for loops) and in width (tabs).

    I am a recent convert to working in a REPL first to test programming ideas.

  • Is there any good reason not to use perl scripts in place of bash logic?
    3 projects | /r/perl | 22 Mar 2022
  • On Repl-Driven Programming
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2021
    I agree with you that the immediate start-up and feedback is a great benefit to the coder. This is why I dislike complex, Rube-Goldbergian REPL systems.

    There is a use-case for a throw-away interaction with a REPL. For example, how does $builtinFuncX work, or how would $data best be imported into a structure?

    A REPL can also be a good initial approach to a more ambitious problem. In this case, a REPL can be good for focus and discipline.

    If the second case is going to answer your concern and be constructive, it's necessary to be able to build the code for sharing and cleanly export the code for re-use.

    I've had success tackling challenges using REPLs for Python and Perl [1] in both ways. But no tooling is going to solve the problem of a sloppy teammate who claims success just because "it compiles" and "it works on my box". A person who knows how to build good tooling goes further.

    [1] https://github.com/viviparous/preplish

  • Interactive C++ for Data Science
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2020
    It is Jupyter is a Rube-Goldbergian nightmare. Python is a memory hog. There are better solutions, to be sure.

    A simple REPL is all that's needed to both do A-type and B-type data exploration. (I won't use the term "data scientist", it's an exaggeration in most cases.)

    Python has a REPL, R has a REPL, Perl has PDL and both a simple REPL (https://github.com/viviparous/preplish) and a more complex one (https://metacpan.org/pod/Reply).

    Jupyter should not be used as an IDE because it is the wrong tool for development. A-type data explorers just want a painless UI and may not care much about the horrible agglutination of incomplete/slow/broken solutions that Jupyter represents.

What are some alternatives?

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Pluto.jl - 🎈 Simple reactive notebooks for Julia

sanitizers - AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, MemorySanitizer

awesome-cpp - A curated list of awesome C++ (or C) frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.

SHOGUN - Shōgun

tinyspec-cling - tiny spectral synthesizer with livecoding support

spdlog - Fast C++ logging library.

awesome-algorithms - A curated list of awesome places to learn and/or practice algorithms.

transformers - 🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.