Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Vapor

Overview

Cocoa Touch (iOS)

Stacks202

Followers208

Votes12

Vapor

Stacks117

Followers217

Votes65

Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Vapor: What are the differences?

Developers describe Cocoa Touch (iOS) as "The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps". The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services. On the other hand, Vapor is detailed as "A type-safe web framework for Swift". Vapor is the first true web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive foundation for your app without tying you to any single server implementation.

Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Vapor can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Backed by Apple" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Cocoa Touch (iOS), while over 4 developers mention "Fast" as the leading cause for choosing Vapor.

Vapor is an open source tool with 16.8K GitHub stars and 997 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vapor's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Cocoa Touch (iOS) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 32 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Vapor, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Cocoa Touch (iOS)	Vapor
The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.	Vapor is the first true web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive foundation for your app without tying you to any single server implementation.
-	Pure Swift (No makefiles, module maps);Modular;Beautifully expressive
Statistics
Stacks 202	Stacks 117
Followers 208	Followers 217
Votes 12	Votes 65
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Backed by Apple 4 It's just awesome 2 User Friendly Performance	Pros 13 Fast 11 Swift 10 Type-safe 6 Great for apis 5 Asynchronous Cons 1 Not as much support available. 1 Server side swift is still in its infancy
Integrations
Objective-C Swift	Swift

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