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JuicyPixels

9.7 1.7 tar VS JuicyPixels

Haskell library to load & save pictures
binary-serialise-cbor

9.7 3.7 tar VS binary-serialise-cbor

Binary serialisation in the CBOR format

Run Linux Software Faster and Safer than Linux with Unikernels

Promo github.com/nanovms

candid

9.6 8.3 tar VS candid

Candid Library for the Internet Computer
xlsx

9.5 5.1 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 8.5 tar VS raaz

Cryptographic library for Haskell
mime

9.1 0.0 tar VS mime

A Haskell MIME library
RSA

9.1 1.5 tar VS RSA

Haskell RSA Library
pure-zlib

9.1 0.0 tar VS pure-zlib

A Haskell-only implementation of zlib / DEFLATE.
ffmpeg-light

9.0 4.9 tar VS ffmpeg-light

Minimal Haskell bindings to the FFmpeg library
zip

9.0 4.1 tar VS zip

Efficient library for manipulating zip archives
utf8-string

8.9 0.0 tar VS utf8-string

Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings in Haskell
winery

8.8 0.8 tar VS winery

Preservative serialisation format
zip-archive

8.8 0.0 tar VS zip-archive

Native Haskell library for working with zip archives
zlib

8.8 3.4 L3 tar VS zlib

Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats
codec

8.4 0.0 tar VS codec

Easy bidirectional serialization in Haskell
snappy

8.1 0.0 tar VS snappy

Fast Haskell bindings to Google's Snappy compression library
lzma

7.9 1.2 tar VS lzma

Haskell bindings to liblzma
multihash-serialise

7.8 0.6 tar VS multihash-serialise

Haskell libraries for interacting with IPFS
lz4

7.7 0.0 L1 tar VS lz4

Haskell bindings to lz4
qrcode

7.5 0.0 tar VS qrcode

QR Code encoder (future) decoder in pure Haskell
bmp

7.3 0.0 tar VS bmp

Read and write uncompressed BMP image files
lzma-conduit

7.2 3.3 tar VS lzma-conduit

Conduit interface for lzma/xz compression
zip-conduit

7.1 0.0 tar VS zip-conduit

Working with zip archives via conduits.
postgresql-binary

7.1 0.0 tar VS postgresql-binary

Encoders and decoders for the PostgreSQL's binary format
base32-bytestring

7.0 0.0 tar VS base32-bytestring

Efficient base32 codec for bytestrings.
sandi

6.9 0.0 tar VS sandi

Data encoding library for Haskell.
SHA

6.7 0.0 tar VS SHA

Haskell implementation of SHA / SHA2 hash functions
wavefront

6.6 0.0 tar VS wavefront

Haskell Wavefront OBJ loader library
HCodecs

6.6 0.0 tar VS HCodecs

A library to read, write and manipulate MIDI, WAVE, and SoundFont2 files
xls

6.3 0.0 tar VS xls

Haskell Library to Parse MS Excel (.xls format)
html-entities

6.0 0.0 tar VS html-entities

A codec library for HTML-escaped text and HTML-entities
zip-stream

6.0 1.1 tar VS zip-stream

Haskell ZIP archive streaming processing using conduit
friday-juicypixels

6.0 0.0 tar VS friday-juicypixels

Convert between friday and juicypixels types
zlib-enum

5.8 0.0 tar VS zlib-enum

Enumerator interface for zlib compression
qrcode-core

5.7 0.0 tar VS qrcode-core

QR code library in pure Haskell
cryptostore

5.6 0.0 tar VS cryptostore

Serialization of cryptographic data types
libvorbis

5.4 0.0 tar VS libvorbis

Haskell binding for libvorbis, for decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files
simple-tar

5.3 0.0 tar VS simple-tar

A very simple tar archive processing library
activitystreams-aeson

5.2 0.0 tar VS activitystreams-aeson

Basic library for working with Activity Streams
logic-TPTP

5.2 0.8 tar VS logic-TPTP

Import, export etc. for TPTP, a syntax for first-order logic
base91

5.0 0.0 tar VS base91

A Base91 Encoder & Decoder for Haskell
threefish

5.0 0.0 tar VS threefish

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

4.8 0.0 tar VS zlib-lens

zlib support for lens
zlib-bindings

4.6 0.0 L5 tar VS zlib-bindings

Low-level wrapper around the zlib library
hogg

4.6 0.0 tar VS hogg

Haskell library and tools to manipulate the Ogg container format
iteratee-compress

4.6 0.0 tar VS iteratee-compress

Enumerators for compressing and decompressing streams
netpbm

4.6 0.0 tar VS netpbm

Loading PBM, PGM, PPM image files in pure Haskell
streaming-brotli

4.1 0.0 tar VS streaming-brotli

Streaming interface for Brotli (RFC7932) compression
bzlib-conduit

4.1 0.0 L1 tar VS bzlib-conduit

Streaming compression/decompression via conduits.