.NET Core vs Apache Sling: What are the differences?
What is .NET Core? An Open Source, General-Purpose Development Platform Maintained by Microsoft and the .NET Community. Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.
What is Apache Sling? Innovative web framework that is intended to bring back the fun to web development. It is a framework for RESTful web-applications based on an extensible content tree. It maps HTTP request URLs to content resources based on the request's path, extension and selectors. Using convention over configuration, requests are processed by scripts and servlets, dynamically selected based on the current resource. This fosters meaningful URLs and resource driven request processing, while the modular nature of Sling allows for specialized server instances that include only what is needed.
.NET Core and Apache Sling can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by .NET Core are:
- Cross-platform
- Consistent across architectures
- Command-line tools
On the other hand, Apache Sling provides the following key features:
- REST based web framework
- Content-driven, using a JCR content repository
- Powered by OSGi
.NET Core is an open source tool with 12.8K GitHub stars and 2.98K GitHub forks. Here's a link to .NET Core's open source repository on GitHub.