GeoServer vs Sanic: What are the differences?

Developers describe GeoServer as "An open source server for sharing geospatial data". It is developed, tested, and supported as community-driven project by a diverse group of individuals and organizations. It is designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. On the other hand, Sanic is detailed as "Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast". Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. It's based on the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack. On top of being Flask-like, Sanic supports async request handlers.

GeoServer and Sanic can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.

GeoServer and Sanic are both open source tools. Sanic with 12.5K GitHub stars and 1.18K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than GeoServer with 1.59K GitHub stars and 1.31K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Sanic has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6 company stacks & 25 developers stacks; compared to GeoServer, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.