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.NET vs Actix: What are the differences?
What is .NET? A free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. .NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.
What is Actix? An actor system and web framework for Rust. It web is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust. Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior, they communicate exclusively by exchanging messages.
.NET and Actix can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by .NET are:
- Multiple languages: You can write .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic.
- Cross Platform: Whether you're working in C#, F#, or Visual Basic, your code will run natively on any compatible OS.
- Consistent API & Libraries: To extend functionality, Microsoft and others maintain a healthy package ecosystem built on .NET Standard.
On the other hand, Actix provides the following key features:
- Type Safe
- Feature Rich
- Extensible
.NET and Actix are both open source tools. .NET with 11.6K GitHub stars and 2.52K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Actix with 3.3K GitHub stars and 216 GitHub forks.
Decided to change all my stack to microsoft technologies for they behave just great together. It is very easy to set up and deploy projects using visual studio and azure. Visual studio is also an amazing IDE, if not the best, when used for C#, it allows you to work in every aspect of your software.
Visual studio templates for ASP.NET MVC are the best I've found compared to django, rails, laravel, and others.
Pros of Actix
- Really really really fast4
- Rust2
- Open source1
- Very safe1
Pros of .NET
- Tight integration with visual studio265
- Stable code253
- Great community181
- Reliable and strongly typed server side language.174
- Microsoft135
- Fantastic documentation111
- Great 3rd party libraries84
- Speedy74
- Great azure integration66
- Great support59
- Highly productive27
- Linq27
- C#26
- High Performance25
- Great programming languages (C#, VB)23
- Open source21
- Powerful Web application framework (ASP.NET MVC)16
- Clean markup with razor14
- Powerful ORM (EntityFramework)13
- Fast12
- Dependency injection10
- Constantly improving to keep up with new trends9
- Visual studio + Resharper = <39
- TFS7
- Job opportunities6
- Security6
- Integrated and Reliable6
- High-Performance6
- Huge ecosystem and communities5
- Light-weight5
- Variations4
- Lovely4
- Asynchrony3
- Concurrent3
- Useful IoC3
- {get; set;}3
- Entity framework3
- Scaffolding3
- Support and SImplicity3
- Default Debuging tools2
- Blazor1
- Nuget package manager1
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Cons of Actix
- Lots of unsafe code3
Cons of .NET
- C#11
- Too expensive to deploy and maintain11
- Microsoft dependable systems7
- Microsoft itself7
- Hard learning curve4
- Tight integration with visual studio2
- Not have a full fledged visual studio for linux1
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