Comparing to LangChain

Rhetorical question: which code would you rather maintain, change, and update?

For a side by side comparison see our docs.

In this directory you'll find a set of equivalent examples. Most of the files are self-contained, and are prefixed with what they have inside them.

Files prefixed with lcel_ are LangChain examples. Files prefixed with vanilla_ are what you would write in vanilla Python. Files prefixed with hamilton_ are the Hamilton equivalent of the examples.

As you browse the files you'll see that:

1. LangChain's focus is on hiding details and making code terse.
2. Hamilton's focus instead is on making code more readable, maintainable, and importantly customizeable.

Implications

Don‘t be surprised that Hamilton’s code is “longer” - that‘s by design. There is also little abstraction between you, and the underlying libraries with Hamilton. With LangChain they’re abstracted away, so you can‘t really see easily what’s going on underneath.