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binary-serialise-cbor

9.7 4.4 tar VS binary-serialise-cbor

Binary serialisation in the CBOR format
candid

9.7 7.9 tar VS candid

Candid Library for the Internet Computer

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JuicyPixels

9.7 4.5 tar VS JuicyPixels

Haskell library to load & save pictures
xlsx

9.5 5.7 tar VS xlsx

Simple and incomplete Excel file parser/writer
codec-beam

9.4 tar VS codec-beam

Erlang VM byte code assembler
raaz

9.1 5.8 tar VS raaz

Cryptographic library for Haskell
zip

9.0 2.0 tar VS zip

Efficient library for manipulating zip archives
ffmpeg-light

9.0 3.3 tar VS ffmpeg-light

Minimal Haskell bindings to the FFmpeg library
RSA

9.0 0.8 tar VS RSA

Haskell RSA Library
mime

9.0 0.0 tar VS mime

A Haskell MIME library
zlib

8.9 5.9 L3 tar VS zlib

Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats
pure-zlib

8.9 0.0 tar VS pure-zlib

A Haskell-only implementation of zlib / DEFLATE.
winery

8.9 3.1 tar VS winery

Preservative serialisation format
utf8-string

8.8 0.0 tar VS utf8-string

Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings in Haskell
zip-archive

8.8 5.2 tar VS zip-archive

Native Haskell library for working with zip archives
codec

8.4 0.0 tar VS codec

Easy bidirectional serialization in Haskell
snappy

8.0 0.0 tar VS snappy

Fast Haskell bindings to Google's Snappy compression library
lzma

7.9 0.0 tar VS lzma

Haskell bindings to liblzma
lzma-conduit

7.6 0.0 tar VS lzma-conduit

Conduit interface for lzma/xz compression
multihash-serialise

7.5 0.0 tar VS multihash-serialise

Haskell libraries for interacting with IPFS
lz4

7.5 0.0 L1 tar VS lz4

Haskell bindings to lz4
postgresql-binary

7.4 0.0 tar VS postgresql-binary

Encoders and decoders for the PostgreSQL's binary format
qrcode

7.4 0.0 tar VS qrcode

QR Code encoder (future) decoder in pure Haskell
bmp

7.3 0.6 tar VS bmp

Read and write uncompressed BMP image files
SHA

7.0 0.0 tar VS SHA

Haskell implementation of SHA / SHA2 hash functions
base32-bytestring

6.9 0.0 tar VS base32-bytestring

Efficient base32 codec for bytestrings.
sandi

6.7 0.0 tar VS sandi

Data encoding library for Haskell.
xls

6.7 0.0 tar VS xls

Haskell Library to Parse MS Excel (.xls format)
wavefront

6.7 0.0 tar VS wavefront

Haskell Wavefront OBJ loader library
HCodecs

6.5 0.0 tar VS HCodecs

A library to read, write and manipulate MIDI, WAVE, and SoundFont2 files
qrcode-core

6.3 2.4 tar VS qrcode-core

QR code library in pure Haskell
html-entities

6.2 3.5 tar VS html-entities

A codec library for HTML-escaped text and HTML-entities
cryptostore

6.1 0.0 tar VS cryptostore

Serialization of cryptographic data types
friday-juicypixels

5.9 0.0 tar VS friday-juicypixels

Convert between friday and juicypixels types
zip-stream

5.8 0.0 tar VS zip-stream

Haskell ZIP archive streaming processing using conduit
zlib-enum

5.6 0.0 tar VS zlib-enum

Enumerator interface for zlib compression
activitystreams-aeson

5.4 0.0 tar VS activitystreams-aeson

Basic library for working with Activity Streams
hs-zstd

5.3 3.7 tar VS hs-zstd

Bindings to the Zstandard library to make it usable from the Haskell programming language.
zlib-bindings

5.0 0.0 L5 tar VS zlib-bindings

Low-level wrapper around the zlib library
zlib-lens

5.0 0.0 tar VS zlib-lens

zlib support for lens
threefish

5.0 0.0 tar VS threefish

Haskell implementation of the Threefish block cipher and the Skein hash function built on it.
logic-TPTP

4.9 0.0 tar VS logic-TPTP

Import, export etc. for TPTP, a syntax for first-order logic
libvorbis

4.7 0.0 tar VS libvorbis

Haskell binding for libvorbis, for decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files
base91

4.7 0.0 tar VS base91

A Base91 Encoder & Decoder for Haskell
simple-tar

4.5 0.0 tar VS simple-tar

A very simple tar archive processing library
streaming-brotli

4.3 0.0 tar VS streaming-brotli

Streaming interface for Brotli (RFC7932) compression
netpbm

4.3 0.0 tar VS netpbm

Loading PBM, PGM, PPM image files in pure Haskell
iteratee-compress

4.3 0.0 tar VS iteratee-compress

Enumerators for compressing and decompressing streams
hogg

4.3 0.0 tar VS hogg

Haskell library and tools to manipulate the Ogg container format
brotli

4.1 2.4 tar VS brotli

Brotli compression and decompression