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24 alternatives to Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads in PHP

Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads in PHP. Contribute to widmogrod/php-functional development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is a PHP library that implements functional programming concepts including functors, applicative functors, and monads. It is designed for developers working with functional programming paradigms in PHP projects.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads in PHP launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   PHPunctional, a PHP Functional Programming Library▲37

   Functional Programming Library For PHP. Contribute to r-cyr/PHPunctional development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Python library for functional programming▲129

   Python library for creating data pipelines with chain functional programming - EntilZha/PyFunctional

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go▲368

   FrankenPHP is a new app server for PHP apps (built on top of Caddy) and a library to embed the PHP interpreter in Go web servers.

   2022 · frankenphp.dev · its alternatives →

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   Domain-Driven Design in PHP▲71

   Real examples written in PHP.

   2016 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →

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   PHP does Meta Programming too▲45

   PHP does Meta Programming too! (Requires PHP 5.4). GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

   2011 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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   Namespaced PHP functions to fix inconsistencies in the PHP language▲19

   Wrapper library to fix inconsistencies in PHP's core functions - nkkollaw/zubr

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7EP
   Enophp – PHP library for the eno notation language▲17

   The eno notation language[1] now also has an official PHP library: https://eno-lang.org/php/ It features the same API and featureset as the JavaScript / Python / Ruby libraries, and also comes with the same extensive testsuite that has been growing during implementation of the other libraries, with already well over 90% coverage at the time of release. Happy to hear your feedback and answer any questions! [1] A user-friendly format for file-based content: https://eno-lang.org/

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python▲37

   A functional programming and concurrency library for Python: algebraic abstractions (Semigroups, Monoids, Functors, Applicatives, Monads), immutable data types, and message-passing concurrency, all designed as composable, type-safe values. - kamalfarahani/katharos

   Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A set of handy tools to work with sequences and collections in Python▲29

   A fancy and practical functional tools. Contribute to Suor/funcy development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Functional Programming for Kids: Interactive Tutorial▲40

    An interactive functional programming course for children based on clojure and klipse - viebel/kids.klipse.tech

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Functional programming for modern Fortran▲98

    Functional programming for modern Fortran. Contribute to wavebitscientific/functional-fortran development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PHP API Bindings for Open Brewery DB▲50

    Howdy! I'm a recent PHP convert after a decade of laughing at PHP memes on r/programmerhumor, and wanted to dive a bit deeper into the language by building something practical with it. I also love beer and decided to combine the two by building a PHP library for the Open Brewery DB API (https://openbrewerydb.org/). Hope someone finds it useful!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design▲80

    Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design: Use abstractions like monads and lenses to implement 1970

    2021 · unsafeperform.io · its alternatives →

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    PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions▲89

    A self-contained full-text search engine in pure PHP. No extensions, no dependencies. - olivier-ls/php-fts

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Introduction into FP and Scala – workshop materials▲11

    Learn Functional Programming in Scala. Contribute to scalasummerschool/lectures development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Programming with Pure Lambda Calculus▲61

    Functional programming language based on pure de Bruijn indexed lambda calculus.

    2023 · bruijn.marvinborner.de · its alternatives →

17. 17RM
    Result monad for Elixir inspired by Rust Result type▲39

    2021 · hexdocs.pm · its alternatives →

18. 18FA
    FunctorFlow – An attempt to re-imagine Python libraries▲40

    2019 · functorflow.org · its alternatives →

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    Mom, can we have (Haskell flavored) post-modern C++ at home?▲20

    hspp: An experimental library to bring Haskell Style Programming to C++. - BowenFu/hspp

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Haskell library for web and distributed composable applications▲18

    A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distributed applications that are fully composable, where Web browsers are first class nodes in the cloud - GitHub - transient-haskell/transient-universe: A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distr

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21CA
    Cat, a C++14 functional library▲34

    2015 · cat.github.io · its alternatives →

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    An Interpreter for Extended Relational Algebra (Scheme Based)▲52

    An Interpreter for Extended Relational Algebra (Scheme based) - scvalencia/Coddie

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The only PHP library you miss▲12

    Make your PHP arrays sweet'n'safe. Save your mental energy on type casting. - zakirullin/mess

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24FP
    Functional programming on Perl 5▲29

    2015 · functional-perl.org · its alternatives →

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