lc VS v

Compare lc vs v and see what are their differences.

lc

A post-modern, "multi-dimensional", configurable, abbreviating, extensible ls/file lister in Nim (by c-blake)

v

Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io (by vlang)
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lc v
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57 35,368
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8.7 9.9
5 months ago 2 days ago
Nim V
ISC License MIT License
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lc

Posts with mentions or reviews of lc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-07.
  • Exa Is Deprecated
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    This kind of thing should probably be generalized so that any new parameter can be seamlessly woven into your `ls-like` reports.

    https://github.com/c-blake/lc/blob/master/extensions/fe1 does `du`, but you could use `ffprobe` to do the run-time in hours:minutes:seconds for media files (or maybe 0sec for non-media) or numerous other things.

  • Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch-on like wild fire as Rust did?
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jun 2023
    I don't know about all your other questions, but the https://github.com/c-blake/cligen CLI framework seems much lower effort / ceremony than even Rust's `argh` and is just about as old as `clap` (both started 8 years ago in 2015).

    There are over 50 CLI utilities at https://github.com/c-blake/bu, many of which do something novel rather than just "re-doing ls/find/cat with a twist". While they are really more an "ls/ps construction toolkits" with some default configs to get people going, I think https://github.com/c-blake/lc and https://github.com/c-blake/procs are nicer than Rust alternatives. I mention these since you seem interested in such tools.

  • Exa: An Alternative to Ls
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021
    https://github.com/c-blake/lc can do that and more; Indeed you can group "dot directories" differently than "non-dot directories". When I sat down to write `lc` I went through all of exas issues and features and included as much as I felt reasonable.

    I never liked the graphical tree mode, though. I prefer packing as much information as possible into small real estate (like cell phone terminal screens).

v

Posts with mentions or reviews of v. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-24.
  • V Language Review (2023)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2024
    Their site is clearly showing the language is in beta. The V documentation also states that autofree is WIP, and to use the GC instead. This isn't a corporate created language, but looks to be a true volunteer open source effort from people around the world.

    Their community, in comparison to others, even has their discussions open and open threads for criticism[1]. These

    [1]https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610

  • Towards memory safety with ownership checks for C
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2024
    V also has this https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#embed_fil...
  • Vlang Release v0.4.4
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2024
  • Vox: Upcoming open-source browser engine in V
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024
  • Building a web blog in V &amp; SQLite
    1 project | /r/code | 29 Oct 2023
  • bultin_write_buf_to_fd_should_use_c_write
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 25 Oct 2023
  • The V Machine Learning Roadmap and Ecosystem
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 6 Oct 2023
  • Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023
    Goroutines was the selling point for me until they decided to introduce telemetry in their toolchain; that was what forced me to stop using Golang as a whole.

    About GC, I would say: if you implement C++'s RAII mechanism to replace garbage collection, then I believe this project will have a bright future.

    My final question is the following: how `pcz` compares to V language, from a syntax's perspective [1]?

    [1] https://github.com/vlang/v

  • Hopefully, the V developers will establish a relationship with Microsoft.
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 4 Sep 2023
  • The V Programming Language 0.4
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023
    V has the right to exist, have its supporters, and do things its own way. The creator and developers of V, from what I have seen, has always responded well to constructive criticism. Their language has discussions opened at their GitHub, unlike those for various other languages. They even have a thread for what people don't like and want improved about the language[1], again, something many other languages don't have.

    A lot of what was going on initially, was coming from obvious competitors, to include being uncivil, inflammatory, and insulting. The initial "criticism" was not so much that, but false accusations of the language being a scam, vaporware, fraud, or didn't really exist. To include attacks and jealousy about its funding and having supporters. This was not any kind of "valid" criticism, that the creator or contributors of the language could reason about.

    The "criticism" never died down, but rather after V was open-sourced and established itself on GitHub. The initial series of false accusations could not stand nor could the support it was getting be stopped. So, the rhetoric and targets shifted to whatever could be found to go after on the newly released alpha version of the language and its new website. In that new mix of what was being thrown at it, there were indeed some very valid criticisms, as can be found with any new language.

    Constructive and valid criticism, is not the same as insults, trolling, misinformation, rivalry, or false accusations. There is clearly a difference. It's disingenuous to pretend something from one group is the same as the other, or that the intent behind what is being done is not different.

    [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lc and v you can also consider the following projects:

sl - SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

go - The Go programming language

lsd - The next gen ls command

Odin - Odin Programming Language

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

iomrascalai - Iomrascálaí is an AI for the game of Go/Weiqi/Baduk written in Rust

sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers

eza - A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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