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C# vs Marionette: What are the differences?

C#: Simple, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language for the .NET platform. C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers; Marionette: Make your Backbone applications dance. Marionette brings an application architecture to Backbone, along with built in view management and memory management. Backbone.Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications. It is a collection of common design and implementation patterns found in applications.

C# and Marionette are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools respectively.

"Cool syntax" is the primary reason why developers consider C# over the competitors, whereas "Uses Backbone" was stated as the key factor in picking Marionette.

Marionette is an open source tool with 7.15K GitHub stars and 1.35K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Marionette's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, C# has a broader approval, being mentioned in 684 company stacks & 1119 developers stacks; compared to Marionette, which is listed in 35 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

Decisions about C# and Marionette
Andrew Carpenter
Chief Software Architect at Xelex Digital, LLC · | 16 upvotes · 432.1K views

In 2015 as Xelex Digital was paving a new technology path, moving from ASP.NET web services and web applications, we knew that we wanted to move to a more modular decoupled base of applications centered around REST APIs.

To that end we spent several months studying API design patterns and decided to use our own adaptation of CRUD, specifically a SCRUD pattern that elevates query params to a more central role via the Search action.

Once we nailed down the API design pattern it was time to decide what language(s) our new APIs would be built upon. Our team has always been driven by the right tool for the job rather than what we know best. That said, in balancing practicality we chose to focus on 3 options that our team had deep experience with and knew the pros and cons of.

For us it came down to C#, JavaScript, and Ruby. At the time we owned our infrastructure, racks in cages, that were all loaded with Windows. We were also at a point that we were using that infrastructure to it's fullest and could not afford additional servers running Linux. That's a long way of saying we decided against Ruby as it doesn't play nice on Windows.

That left us with two options. We went a very unconventional route for deciding between the two. We built MVP APIs on both. The interfaces were identical and interchangeable. What we found was easily quantifiable differences.

We were able to iterate on our Node based APIs much more rapidly than we were our C# APIs. For us this was owed to the community coupled with the extremely dynamic nature of JS. There were tradeoffs we considered, latency was (acceptably) higher on requests to our Node APIs. No strong types to protect us from ourselves, but we've rarely found that to be an issue.

As such we decided to commit resources to our Node APIs and push it out as the core brain of our new system. We haven't looked back since. It has consistently met our needs, scaling with us, getting better with time as continually pour into and expand our capabilities.

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Erik Ralston
Chief Architect at LiveTiles · | 14 upvotes · 593.2K views

C# and .Net were obvious choices for us at LiveTiles given our investment in the Microsoft ecosystem. It enabled us to harness of the .Net framework to build ASP.Net MVC, WebAPI, and Serverless applications very easily. Coupled with the high productivity of Visual Studio, it's the native tongue of Microsoft technology.

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Pros of C#
Pros of Marionette
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    Cool syntax
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    Great lambda support
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    Great generics support
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    Language integrated query (linq)
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    Extension methods
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    Automatic garbage collection
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    Properties with get/set methods
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    Backed by microsoft
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    Automatic memory management
  • 61
    Amaizing Crossplatform Support
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    High performance
  • 43
    LINQ
  • 38
    Beautiful
  • 35
    Great ecosystem of community packages with Nuget
  • 27
    Vibrant developer community
  • 24
    Great readability
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    Dead-simple asynchronous programming with async/await
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    Visual Studio - Great IDE
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    Open source
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    Productive
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    Strongly typed by default, dynamic typing when needed
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    Object oriented programming paradigm
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    Easy separation of config/application code
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    Great community
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    OOPS simplified with great syntax
  • 9
    Operator overloading
  • 9
    Cool
  • 8
    Good language to teach OO concepts
  • 8
    High-performance
  • 8
    Events management using delegates
  • 7
    Unity
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    Linq expressions
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    Conditional compilation
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    Coherent language backed by an extensive CLR
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    Top level code
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    Organized and clean
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    Comprehensive platform libraries
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    Concise syntax, productivity designed
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    Lovely
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    Statically typed
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    Far more sleek and sphisticated than other languages
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    Simple and Readable
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    Sophisticated overall
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    Interfaces
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    Interfaces
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    MVC compliant
  • 20
    Uses Backbone
  • 13
    Views management
  • 9
    View management
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    JavaScript
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    Memory management
  • 4
    MVC Beginner-Friendly
  • 1
    Collections useful tools

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Cons of C#
Cons of Marionette
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    Poor x-platform GUI support
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    Closed source
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    Fast and secure
  • 7
    Requires DllImportAttribute for getting stuff from unma
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    What is C#?

    C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

    What is Marionette?

    It is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

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    What are some alternatives to C# and Marionette?
    Java
    Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
    Python
    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
    JavaScript
    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
    Golang
    Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
    Node.js
    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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