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24 alternatives to Python library for functional programming

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

This Python library provides tools for functional programming paradigms, enabling developers to write code using functional techniques within Python. It was launched in 2017 and is available on GitHub. The library is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Python library for functional programming launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    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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    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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    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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    A graph-based functional API for building complex scikit-learn pipelines. - alegonz/baikal

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Taipy 3.0▲304

    Build powerful data and AI apps in pure Python

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A framework for functional types and operations designed to fit naturally into Swift. - mpangburn/FunctionKit

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    Full Stack Python explains programming concepts in plain language and provides links to the best tutorials for those topics.

    2014 · fullstackpython.com · its alternatives →

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    Purely functional artificial neural network library implemented in Haskell. - jbarrow/LambdaNet

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    2019 · getprogrammingwithclojure.com · its alternatives →

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    What? Another flow based programming library for Python? Yes. All the FBP libraries out there for Python need to be run as a self contained application. They are not components that could be integrated into your existing data workflows. Barfi, on the other hand can be integrated. At the moment it has a Streamlit component that you can use in your Streamlit apps. Currently, I am working on a Jupyter notebook widget.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps - python-eel/Eel

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m a physicist turned quant. Some friends and I 'built' SymDerive because we wanted a symbolic math library that was "Agent-Native" by design, but still a practical tool for humans. It boils down to two main goals: 1. Agent Reliability: I’ve found that AI agents write much more reliable code when they stick to stateless, functional pipelines (Lisp-style). It keeps them from hallucinating state changes or getting lost in long procedural scripts. I wanted a library that enforces that "Input -> Transform -> Output" flow by default. 2. Easing the transition to Python: For many…

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

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    An experimental programming language for data flow - calebwin/pipelines

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

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Python Library for Studying Binary Trees. Contribute to joowani/binarytree development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A library adding some anti-Pythonic syntatic sugar to Python - czheo/syntax_sugar_python

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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