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xmobar

9.9 8.7 rainbow VS xmobar

DISCONTINUED. A minimalistic status bar
optparse-applicative

9.9 5.9 rainbow VS optparse-applicative

Applicative option parser

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

Promo workos.com

taffybar

9.9 6.8 rainbow VS taffybar

A gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad
bench

9.9 3.5 rainbow VS bench

Command-line benchmark tool
turtle

9.9 4.3 rainbow VS turtle

Shell programming, Haskell style
angel

9.7 0.0 rainbow VS angel

Process Monitoring/Management, Like Daemontools
date-cache

9.6 4.1 rainbow VS date-cache

A fast logging system for Haskell
process

9.6 6.4 rainbow VS process

Library for dealing with system processes
unix

9.6 7.3 rainbow VS unix

POSIX functionality
nix-diff

9.6 5.5 rainbow VS nix-diff

Explain why two Nix derivations differ
ghc-hotswap

9.5 0.0 rainbow VS ghc-hotswap

DISCONTINUED. Example code for how we swap compiled code within a running Haskell process.
nix-deploy

9.5 0.0 rainbow VS nix-deploy

Deploy software or an entire NixOS system configuration to another NixOS system
optparse-generic

9.5 5.0 rainbow VS optparse-generic

Auto-generate a command-line parser for your datatype
hapistrano

9.5 4.9 rainbow VS hapistrano

Deploy tool for Haskell applications, like Capistrano for Rails
envy

9.4 3.3 rainbow VS envy

:angry: Environmentally friendly environment variables
directory

9.3 7.0 rainbow VS directory

Platform-independent library for basic file system operations
typed-process

9.3 5.8 rainbow VS typed-process

Alternative API for processes, featuring more type safety
filepath

9.2 7.5 rainbow VS filepath

Haskell FilePath core library
pid1

9.2 2.6 rainbow VS pid1

Do signal handling and orphan reaping for Unix PID1 init processes
hnix-store-core

9.1 9.7 rainbow VS hnix-store-core

Haskell implementation of the Nix store
log

9.0 2.2 rainbow VS log

Structured logging solution.
clock

8.9 4.6 rainbow VS clock

High-resolution clock functions: monotonic, realtime, cputime.
openssh-github-keys

8.9 0.0 rainbow VS openssh-github-keys

DISCONTINUED. DEPRECATED: Control SSH access to your servers via GitHub teams
ekg-core

8.9 0.0 rainbow VS ekg-core

Library for tracking system metrics
clifm

8.9 0.0 rainbow VS clifm

Command Line Interface File Manager
hail

8.9 0.0 rainbow VS hail

DISCONTINUED. A service for pull-based continuous deployment based on hydra.
logsink

8.7 0.0 rainbow VS logsink

A logging framework for Haskell
monky

8.7 0.0 rainbow VS monky

The main repository for monky
ekg-cloudwatch

8.7 0.0 rainbow VS ekg-cloudwatch

CloudWatch stats for ekg
hobbes

8.7 0.0 rainbow VS hobbes

A cross-platform file activity monitor
atomic-write

8.6 7.0 rainbow VS atomic-write

Writes files atomically in Haskell while preserving permissions
apotiki

8.6 0.0 rainbow VS apotiki

DISCONTINUED. a faster debian repository
cef

8.6 0.0 rainbow VS cef

A Haskell library for CEF (Commont Event Format)
plugins

8.5 0.0 rainbow VS plugins

Dynamic linking and runtime evaluation of Haskell, and C, including dependency chasing and package resolution.
twitch

8.5 3.8 rainbow VS twitch

A high level file watcher DSL
logger

8.5 0.0 rainbow VS logger

Fast & extensible logging framework for Haskell!
system-fileio

8.5 0.0 rainbow VS system-fileio

Contains the system-filepath and system-fileio packages
unix-compat

8.5 0.0 rainbow VS unix-compat

Haskell portable POSIX-compatibility layer
language-puppet

8.4 5.7 rainbow VS language-puppet

A library to work with Puppet manifests, test them and eventually replace everything ruby.
ascii-progress

8.4 0.0 rainbow VS ascii-progress

A simple Haskell progress bar for the console. Heavily borrows from TJ Holowaychuk's Node.JS project
optparse-declarative

8.4 3.2 rainbow VS optparse-declarative

Declarative command-line option parser
hinotify

8.3 0.0 rainbow VS hinotify

Haskell binding to inotify
ekg-statsd

8.3 0.0 rainbow VS ekg-statsd

Flush system metrics to statsd
HFuse

8.3 3.1 rainbow VS HFuse

Haskell bindings for the FUSE library
which

8.3 3.3 rainbow VS which

Determine the full path to an executable.
halfs

8.2 0.0 rainbow VS halfs

The Haskell File System: A file system implementation in Haskell
executable-hash

8.2 0.0 rainbow VS executable-hash

Provides the SHA1 hash of the program executable
HPi

8.2 4.2 rainbow VS HPi

Library to access the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi from Haskell.
splitmix

8.1 4.4 rainbow VS splitmix

Pure Haskell implementation of SplitMix pseudo-random number generator
nix-derivation

8.1 4.3 rainbow VS nix-derivation

Parse and render *.drv files

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rainbow

rainbow helps you build colorful output for both 8- and 256-color terminals. It works only on Unix-like operating systems. For more information, please see the documentation in the main Rainbow module.

rainbow is on Github:

http://www.github.com/massysett/rainbow

and Hackage:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/rainbow

and Stackage:

https://www.stackage.org/package/rainbow

rainbow is licensed under the BSD license; see the LICENSE file.

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the rainbow README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.