.NET Core vs Yesod: What are the differences?
What is .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.
What is Yesod? A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI. Yesod believes in the philosophy of making the compiler your ally, not your enemy. We use the type system to enforce as much as possible, from generating proper links, to avoiding XSS attacks, to dealing with character encoding issues. In general, if your code compiles, it works. And instead of declaring types everywhere you let the compiler figure them out for you with type inference.
.NET Core and Yesod can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by .NET Core are:
- Cross-platform
- Consistent across architectures
- Command-line tools
On the other hand, Yesod provides the following key features:
- safety & security guaranteed at compile time
- developer productivity: tools for all your basic web development needs
- raw performance
"Great performance" is the top reason why over 2 developers like .NET Core, while over 5 developers mention "Haskell" as the leading cause for choosing Yesod.
.NET Core and Yesod are both open source tools. .NET Core with 11.2K GitHub stars and 2.41K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Yesod with 2.11K GitHub stars and 329 GitHub forks.
Catchpoint Systems, Bluebeam Software, and Kaggle are some of the popular companies that use .NET Core, whereas Yesod is used by DoxIQ, FP Complete, and SimplyRETS. .NET Core has a broader approval, being mentioned in 54 company stacks & 71 developers stacks; compared to Yesod, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.