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Cocoa (OS X) vs Tornado: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cocoa (OS X) as "The Cocoa frameworks consist of libraries, APIs, and runtimes that form the development layer for all of OS X". Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is compiled to run at incredible speed, yet employs a truly dynamic runtime making it uniquely flexible. Because Objective-C is a superset of C, it is easy to mix C and even C++ into your Cocoa applications. On the other hand, Tornado is detailed as "A Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed". By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.
Cocoa (OS X) and Tornado can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
"Great community " is the primary reason why developers consider Cocoa (OS X) over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Tornado.
Tornado is an open source tool with 18K GitHub stars and 4.98K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Tornado's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Cocoa (OS X)
- Great community3
- IOS2
- Backed by apple1
Pros of Tornado
- Open source37
- So fast31
- Great for microservices architecture27
- Websockets20
- Simple17
- Asynchronous14
- Python11
- Lightweight7
- Handles well persistent connexions3
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Cons of Cocoa (OS X)
Cons of Tornado
- Event loop is complicated2
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