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24 alternatives to Clean and simple declarative dotfile management

A simplistic dotfile manager written in pure Python - ariataylor96/punctual

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Clean and simple declarative dotfile management launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Simple Python Calculation Engine. Contribute to bsdz/calcengine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mirror of https://gitlab.com/risserlabs/community/dotstow - clayrisser/dotstow

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Improved file parsing for LLM’s. Contribute to Filimoa/open-parse development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! This is my pet project, written from scratch because there is so much to discover and learn in the process. The focus is on simplicity and incremental updates. Progress is slow because I do not have much spare time to work on this, but I would love to hear some feedback. Regards

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    pystitcher stitches your PDF files together, generating nice customizable bookmarks for you using a declarative markdown file as input - captn3m0/pystitcher

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I built Oxyde because I was tired of duplicating my models. If you use FastAPI, you know the drill. You define Pydantic models for your API, then define separate ORM models for your database, then write converters between them. SQLModel tries to fix this but it's still SQLAlchemy underneath. Tortoise gives you a nice Django-style API but its own model system. Django ORM is great but welded to the framework. I wanted something simple: your Pydantic model IS your database model. One class, full validation on input and output, native type hints, zero duplication. The query API is…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ⚡ A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager. Contribute to Shemnei/punktf development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello and happy new year! We're excited to introduce the Pyper package for concurrency & parallelism in Python. Pyper is a flexible framework for concurrent / parallel data processing, following the functional paradigm. Source code can be found on [github](https://github.com/pyper-dev/pyper) Key features: Intuitive API: Easy to learn, easy to think about. Implements clean abstractions to seamlessly unify threaded, multiprocessed, and asynchronous work. Functional Paradigm: Python functions are the building blocks of data pipelines. Let's you write clean, reusable…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Move dotfiles to ~/.config/lnk, get symlinks back, use Git normally. Single binary, no config files, no fluff. Built because chezmoi was too complex and plain Git was too manual.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases - dosisod/refurb

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I've been in software engineering for over 10 years and I'm excited to share my latest project, Parseflow (https://parseflow.io). It's a AI data automation platform designed to simplify data extraction from documents and integrate it effortlessly with your go-to applications. Parseflow can handle a variety of document types, including PDFs, images, and scanned documents. This means you can easily extract data from invoices, receipts, contracts, and more. Once you've extracted the data, you can integrate it with a variety of applications, including Google Sheets, QuickBooks,…

    2024 · parseflow.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://practicalpython.yasoob.me) I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end) This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it.…

    2021 · practicalpython.yasoob.me · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ - asrp/pyzdb

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We’re Robin, Louis, and Thomas. Pipelex is a DSL and a Python runtime for repeatable AI workflows. Think Dockerfile/SQL for multi-step LLM pipelines: you declare steps and interfaces; any model/provider can fill them. Why this instead of yet another workflow builder? - Declarative, not glue code: you state what to do; the runtime figures out how. - Agent-first: each step carries natural-language context (purpose, inputs/outputs with meaning) so LLMs can follow, audit, and optimize. Our MCP server enables agents to run pipelines but also to build new pipelines on demand. - Open…

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Greetings! A 2.5 weekends project to teach myself newer Python features (>= 3.10). Conditions are written as Lambda expressions that annotate parameters and return types, and coexist with type annotations. Symbols to share values between conditions are also supported to a limited extend.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dotsync▲88

    A simple and concise dotfiles synchronizer

    2023 · dotsync.org · its alternatives →

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    A simple way to manage dotfiles with git without silly symlinks and special tools. Just use negative matches in your .gitignore ! - Git dot files management

    2016 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Run experiments with Python - quick and clean. Contribute to duerrp/pyexperiment development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Declaratively manage images built from a set of Dockerfiles - jbergknoff/Dockerfiler

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimal, user-friendly dotfiles backup manager

    Aug 2026 · darshithedpara.github.io · its alternatives →

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    This is an upgrade of a tool I created 15 years ago in Python to learn OOP and solve some inadequacies in the HDR stacking tools I could find at the time. The problem was, none of them were really "batch friendly". None of them properly preserved the metadata I wanted them to stuff into the output file. There were probably some other reasons also, I just can't remember them now. It got the job done, but was very slow. Python was what I knew at the time and even with NumPy, I was limited in the speed I could squeeze out of it. (I also made some very specific, conscious, architectural choices…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PyMiniRacer is a V8 bridge in Python. Contribute to sqreen/PyMiniRacer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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