Cicada vs IPython

Overview

IPython

Stacks832

Followers111

Votes4

Cicada Shell

Stacks3

Followers12

Votes0

GitHub Stars995

Forks50

Cicada vs IPython: What are the differences?

What is Cicada? A Unix shell written in Rust. It is a simple bash-like Unix shell written in Rust.

What is IPython? A command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages. It provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with a powerful interactive shell, a kernel for Jupyter. It has a support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects. Easy to use, high performance tools for parallel computing. .

Cicada and IPython belong to "Shells" category of the tech stack.

Cicada is an open source tool with 696 GitHub stars and 32 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cicada's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

IPython	Cicada Shell
It provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with a powerful interactive shell, a kernel for Jupyter. It has a support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits. Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects. Easy to use, high performance tools for parallel computing.	It is a simple bash-like Unix shell written in Rust.
Interactive; Magic; embeddable interpreters; parallel computing	simple; powerful
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 995
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 50
Stacks 832	Stacks 3
Followers 111	Followers 12
Votes 4	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Interactive exploration then save to a script 1 Persistent history between sessions 1 It's magical are just that 1 Help in a keystroke	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Python PyCharm Apache Spark	Linux Rust macOS

What are some alternatives to IPython, Cicada Shell?

GNU Bash

The Bourne Again SHell is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.

Shell

A shell is a text-based terminal, used for manipulating programs and files. Shell scripts typically manage program execution.

PowerShell

A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.

Zsh (Z shell)

An interactive login shell, command interpreter and scripting language.

Fish Shell

It is a useful utility filled shell which makes command line operations quicker with customized functions, easy to append path variable command, command history and more right out of the box.

Tabby

It is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

Google Cloud Shell

It is an online development and operations environment accessible anywhere with your browser. You can manage your resources with its online terminal preloaded with utilities such as the gcloud command-line tool, kubectl, and more. You can also develop, build, debug, and deploy your cloud-based apps using the online Cloud Shell Editor.

Nu Shell

It comes with a set of built-in commands. If a command is unknown, the command will shell-out and execute it (using cmd on Windows or bash on Linux and MacOS), correctly passing through stdin, stdout and stderr, so things like your daily git workflows and even vim will work just fine.

Runops

Secure access to the Cloud with a single CLI. You run a SQL query and it goes to Runops instead of the database. We get peer reviews in Slack, run it, and remove sensitive data from results.

KornShell

It is an interactive command language that provides access to the UNIX system and to many other systems, on the many different computers and workstations on which it is implemented.