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24 alternatives to Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python

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

Katharos is a Python library that brings functional programming and CSP-style concurrency to the language. It is designed for developers looking to write concurrent code using communicating sequential processes… 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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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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Pyper – Concurrent Python Made Simple▲156
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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Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing▲166
An experimental Python-to-C transpiler and domain specific language for embedded high-performance computing - zanellia/prometeo
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fructose – LLM calls as strongly typed functions▲218
Hi HN! Erik here from Banana (formerly the serverless GPU platform), excited to show you what we’ve been working on next: Fructose Fructose is a python package to call LLMs as strongly typed functions. It uses function type signatures to guide the generation and guarantee a correctly typed output, in whatever basic/complex python datatype requested. By guaranteeing output structure, we believe this will enable more complex applications to be built, interweaving code with LLMs with code. For now, we’ve shipped Fructose as a client-only library simply calling gpt-4 (by default) with json…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Neco – Coroutine Library for C▲145
Concurrency library for C (coroutines). Contribute to tidwall/neco development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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“Crafting Interpreters” chapter, control flow and Turing-completeness▲116
2017 · craftinginterpreters.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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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A design-by-contract Python package in ~100 lines▲58
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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2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Functional programming language based on pure de Bruijn indexed lambda calculus.
2023 · bruijn.marvinborner.de · its alternatives →
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2015 · cat.github.io · its alternatives →
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Fuse – statically typed functional programming language▲121
Hi HN! I've been working on the fuse programming language, it's a statically typed purely functional language with higher-kinder types and ad-hoc polymorphism. It compiles to the GRIN whole-program optimizer, producing LLVM-generated native code. Fuse supports ADTs, Generics, Type Methods, Traits, Pattern matching etc. all in a functional style with no mutations. I’ve been developing the language for 5 years, with code written in Scala. I’ve started coding the language from the base of System F that was implemented as part of the book: Types and Programming Languages (tapl). And then…
Aug 2026 · fuselang.org · its alternatives →
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I built Copapy as an experiment: Can Python be used for hard real-time systems? Instead of an interpreter or JIT, Copapy builds a computation graph by tracing Python code and uses a custom copy-and-patch compiler. The result is very fast native code with no GC, no syscalls, and no memory allocations at runtime. The copy-and-patch compiler currently supports x86_64 as well as 32- and 64-bit ARM. It comes as small Python package with no other dependencies - no cross-compiler, nothing except Python. The current focus is on robotics and control systems in general. This project is early but…
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · pypi.org · its alternatives →
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Purely Functional Data Structures▲61
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LazyCode – C++14 composable, lazily evaluated map, filter, fold▲66
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