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ent vs Ktor: What are the differences?
ent: An entity framework for Go (by Facebook). It is a simple, yet powerful entity framework for Go, that makes it easy to build and maintain applications with large data-models; Ktor: Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin. It is a framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems using the Kotlin programming language.
ent and Ktor belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by ent are:
- Easily model database schema as a graph structure
- Define schema as a programmatic Go code
- Static typing based on code generation
On the other hand, Ktor provides the following key features:
- Unopinionated
- Asynchronous
- Testable
Ktor is an open source tool with 7.31K GitHub stars and 609 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ktor's open source repository on GitHub.
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- Simple & Small8
- Kotlin native7
- Light weight6
- High performance3
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- Not self-explanatory: relies on Kotlin "magic"2
- Relatively fresh technology - not a lot of expertise2
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What is ent?
It is a simple, yet powerful entity framework for Go, that makes it easy to build and maintain applications with large data-models.
What is Ktor?
It is a framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems using the Kotlin programming language.
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