Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Burrito: An embeddable QuickJS wrapper written in Nim
Just shipped Burrito, a QuickJS wrapper for Nim that lets you embed a full JS REPL in your Nim apps. Call JS from Nim (and vice versa), run interactively, and more. Built in a weekend (mostly on my phone) - code, docs, tests, and a landing page all included!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Burrito has been in development for a long time, but just last night (PST) I finally gathered the confidence to push the project to Hex.pm (Elixir's official package manager) so everyone can easily use it. Burrito is a Mix release tool that allows you to wrap your entire Elixir based application (including the Erlang VM runtime) into a single-file, standalone executable for MacOS, Linux, and Windows. It currently utilizes Zig to build a cross-platform wrapper around a self-extracting payload. Burrito will grab pre-built Erlang VM builds from a build server I operate…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bun▲295A fast JS runtime Node.js replacement with built‑in tools
Dec 2025 · bun.com · its alternatives →
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This is a project I've been working on since the start of Covid-19. I built an app so that I don't have to put data into online tools like JWT debugger, JSON formatter, URL decoder, etc... https://devutils.app The app works entirely offline and is open-source. I'm selling the pre-built version of the app to earn some revenue for my time. If you want to try the app but can't afford the price or don't have XCode to build the app, drop me an email (my profile), I'll be happy to provide you a free build. I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!
2020 · its alternatives →
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The most powerful URL shortener for macOS
2017 · shortmenu.com · its alternatives →
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Prettify, inspect and share your JSON data.
2019 · json.pizza · its alternatives →
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❄️ Elsa is a minimal runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Go - elsaland/elsa
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Replicate DuckDuckGo !bang's in Firefox using Keymarks! - jameshealyio/bang-bookmarks
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple CMS :tomato:. Contribute to ketchuphq/ketchup development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A burrito descends on a small town in BC, Canada.
2016 · megamaker-f57f087d.simplecast.com · its alternatives →
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Node.js scratchpad for macOS with direct access from menubar
2019 · tinyscratchpad.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · larryng.github.com · its alternatives →
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Check out this impressive project that enables running LLMs entirely in the browser using WebGPU. Key features: - Zero token costs, no cloud infrastructure required - Complete data privacy through local processing - Simple 3-line code integration - Built on MLC and Transformer.js The benchmarks show smaller models can effectively handle many common tasks. Currently the project roadmap includes: - No-code AI pipeline builder - Browser-based RAG for document chat - Analytics/logging - Model fine-tuning interface
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Eggshell▲90Simple BASH script manager for your Mac menubar
2018 · yoavanaki.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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A private, browser-only ClojureScript playground powered by the self-hosted compiler.
2016 · cljsfiddle.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Joan, the developer of Quicklang. I made this app to easily translate and keep in sync all my localization JSON files for my side projects. While searching online for a similar tool, I only found enterprise solutions that do not allow direct editing of JSON files. I used to use ChatGPT to translate the JSON translation file changes before coding Quicklang. However, I realized that ChatGPT only allows you to input short content for translation into another language (even if you provide a .json file), and each time I had to request translations for one language at a time. So, I…
2024 · quicklang.app · its alternatives →
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A few years ago I wrote a crawler to fetch all NYC menus. I wanted to prove that many specific dishes can't be found in NYC restaurants. After more than two years that I had forgotten about the project I decided to clean it up, deal with the css, and put it online. The number of interesting dishes that can be found is actually quite surprising. The backend is written using nodejs without any framework (no db, just a bunch of in memory DS) and vanilla js/html/css for the frontend.
2022 · c.bitlet.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Erik here from banana.dev We’ve trained a small(ish) language model on structured extraction, and today we’re launching a playground for it at https://anythingtojson.com. Give it a try! This model continues our work on structured generation, following last week’s launch of Fructose[1], a python client for strongly-typed LLM responses. There seem to be two distinct halves of the problem intended to be solved by Fructose and structured generation: 1. the reasoning ability of the model, such as performing chain of thought, creative acts, and natural language tasks. In a way,…
2024 · anythingtojson.com · its alternatives →
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I built Morph, an experimental fullstack HTML-first library for Deno, Node, and Bun. Everything returns HTML, not JSON. No React, no Vite — just plain HTML with server-side rendering. No build steps, no preprocessors, no complex configs — everything runs from a single file. Perfect for Telegram Web Apps, internal tools, simple admin panels, dashboards, or anywhere a full-blown SPA feels like overkill. Important: I built this entirely for myself — to solve my own problems. I hate complex frontend. I hate writing it. And I don’t want to waste time on it. But maybe it’ll help you too.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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