.NET Core vs Saturn: What are the differences?
.NET Core: An Open Source, General-Purpose Development Platform Maintained by Microsoft and the .NET Community. Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications; Saturn: Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern. It is a web development framework written in F# which implements the server-side MVC pattern. Many of its components and concepts will seem familiar to anyone with experience in other web frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Python’s Django.
.NET Core and Saturn belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by .NET Core are:
- Cross-platform
- Consistent across architectures
- Command-line tools
On the other hand, Saturn provides the following key features:
- Combines the well known MVC pattern with the power of FP and F# to make web programming fun and easy
- Builds on top of highly optimized, and battle tested technologies such as ASP.NET Core, Giraffe and Kestrel
- Provides set of tools, templates and guides that makes creating and maintaining applications seamlessly
.NET Core is an open source tool with 12.3K GitHub stars and 2.76K GitHub forks. Here's a link to .NET Core's open source repository on GitHub.
