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

Cocoa Touch (iOS): 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; Kohana: An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework. Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small.

Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Kohana 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 3 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Kohana.

Kohana is an open source tool with 1.61K GitHub stars and 464 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kohana'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 Kohana, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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    Backed by Apple
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    It's just awesome
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    User Friendly Performance
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    Open source
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    Efficient and lightweight
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    Cascading filesystem
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    Easy to understand PHP framework
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    Extensible
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    A business opportunity

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What is Cocoa Touch (iOS)?

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.

What is Kohana?

Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small.

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