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Immutable.js vs Blockly: What are the differences?
What is Immutable.js? Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity, by Facebook. Immutable provides Persistent Immutable List, Stack, Map, OrderedMap, Set, OrderedSet and Record. They are highly efficient on modern JavaScript VMs by using structural sharing via hash maps tries and vector tries as popularized by Clojure and Scala, minimizing the need to copy or cache data.
What is Blockly? A library that adds a visual code editor to web and mobile apps. It is a client-side library for the programming language JavaScript for creating block-based visual programming languages and editors. It is a project of Google and is free and open-source software.
Immutable.js and Blockly belong to "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Immutable.js and Blockly are both open source tools. Immutable.js with 28.3K GitHub stars and 1.64K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Blockly with 6.84K GitHub stars and 2.37K GitHub forks.
Pros of Blockly
- Easy to use1
- Open Source1
Pros of Immutable.js
- Immutable data structures8
- Allows you to mimic functional programming5
- Bring the functional experience to JS2
- Makes writing Javascript less scary1
- Easily transpiles to different ES standards1