Gitter vs Hubot: What are the differences?
Developers describe Gitter as "Messaging for people who make software. Integrated with your team, projects and your code". Free chat rooms for your public repositories
A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.. On the other hand, Hubot is detailed as "A customizable life embetterment robot". Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.
Gitter belongs to "Group Chat & Notifications" category of the tech stack, while Hubot can be primarily classified under "ChatOps".
Some of the features offered by Gitter are:
- Know who's seen any message
- Edit messages after you've sent them
- Full emoji support
On the other hand, Hubot provides the following key features:
- We ship Hubot with a small group of core scripts: things like posting images, translating languages, and integrating with Google Maps
- Open source, written in CoffeeScript on Node.js
- Extensible
"Github integration" is the top reason why over 62 developers like Gitter, while over 13 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Hubot.
Hubot is an open source tool with 15.1K GitHub stars and 3.51K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hubot's open source repository on GitHub.
CircleCI, Keen, and 500px are some of the popular companies that use Hubot, whereas Gitter is used by Accenture, Binary.com, and Hazeorid. Hubot has a broader approval, being mentioned in 53 company stacks & 21 developers stacks; compared to Gitter, which is listed in 25 company stacks and 41 developer stacks.
