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24 alternatives to Esy – fast and simple package management for native ReasonML/OCaml

Package manager for Reason, OCaml and more

Esy is a package manager designed for ReasonML, OCaml, and related languages. It streamlines dependency management and project setup for developers working with these functional programming languages. The tool aims to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Esy – fast and simple package management for native ReasonML/OCaml launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    :package: Like npm, but faster - an alternative package manager for Node - alexanderGugel/ied

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    tea▲293

    The Homebrew replacement from the maker of Homebrew

    2023 · tea.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Hi, we are a small team from Vienna and today released our first version of a Package Manager similar to apt, Homebrew, or Chocolatey, but specifically tailored for Kubernetes environments and cloud-native software. Originally, we wanted to contribute to the Kubernetes ecosystem with a different idea; however, after talking to the community, we uncovered that package management is an even bigger problem at the moment. We are now looking for as much feedback as possible, so we would really appreciate it if you could check it out and let us know what you think! Thanks!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, we're Philip and Louis from Glasskube (https://github.com/glasskube/glasskube). We're working on an open-source package manager for Kubernetes. It's an alternative to tools like Helm or Kustomize, primarily focused on making deploying, updating, and configuring Kubernetes packages simpler and a lot faster. Here is a demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIeTHGWsG2c#t=17s) with quick start instructions. Most developers working with Kubernetes use Helm, an open-source tool created during a hackathon nine years ago. However, with the rapid…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a project I've wanted to write for a long time now. I really love the ideas from Nix and I still have a ton of respect for the project, but Nix-the-language never felt intuitive to me and I wanted something with more approachable tooling (although this was circa 2016, so I'm sure Nix has improved a lot since then too-- that was before Flakes were around!) Anyway, I started on the current iteration of Brioche about 6 months ago, and I finally cut an initial release. I'd still consider this a "technical preview" version (performance especially is pretty painful, so that'll be a focus…

    2024 · brioche.dev · its alternatives →

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    Ultra▲95

    Fast JavaScript package manager

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    We've rolled out a feature for openbase.com that we think is a DX game changer for Node devs. Since the emergence of ECMA Script modules, it's been a continuous guessing game as to what kind of exports a package has. That's never really been discoverable without using a site like unpkg, or installing the package and inspecting package.json. Openbase now displays the ES Module support level (e.g. type of exports) on all of their package pages. We added this feature because our devs are some of the folks continually caught off guard by installing an NPM dependency only to find out it's…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust - Schniz/fnm

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2018 · emnh.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Sketching ReasonML/OCaml code with inline evaluation results

    2018 · sketch.sh · 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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    eno [1] - A modern plaintext language w/ libraries [2] for JavaScript, Python, Ruby & soon more! We migrated a big relational research database to a file-based solution - requirements were: - Super fast and easy editability for users - Highest performance for parsing/validating >10K documents on every user change. Our trials with YAML/TOML showed us that we wanted something both faster [3][4] and easier [4], something tailored for file-based content management ... and after months of research & development it's now publicly available (under MIT license) for everyone! Last but…

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Host private Python, Docker, NPM, Debian, and Conda packages. Private package registry with 4.5x faster installs, CVE scanning, and SSO. Up to 80% cheaper than Cloudsmith. Free tier available.

    2019 · packagr.app · its alternatives →

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    AI plugin package manager

    2023 · openpm.ai · its alternatives →

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    I built this library because langchain was too bloated and I needed a simple abstraction to call multiple LLM APIs. litellm has two functions - completion(), embedding()

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple OCaml Development Workflow on CommonJS. Contribute to jordwalke/CommonML development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Inacio, the author of REASON. I've been tinkering with LLMs since the GPT-3 API's release May 2020. Seeing the emergence of many frameworks in the last 15 months has been exciting. While many understandably focused on launching quick, I found myself intrigued by a different question: what would a thoughtful, first-principles approach look like? This curiosity led to a personal project, RΞASON, a minimalistic open-source TypeScript framework. It's been a couple of months of digging deep and learning a ton, and I'm eager to share it and grow it with insights from all of you. In the…

    2023 · tryreason.dev · its alternatives →

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    🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. - babel/babel

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The decentralized package manager for C++ and friends 🏝️ - LoopPerfect/buckaroo

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    rust-based package manager :). Contribute to v1peridae/vee development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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