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Slim vs Ktor: What are the differences?

Developers describe Slim as "A PHP micro framework". Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself. On the other hand, Ktor is detailed as "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.

Slim and Ktor can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Slim and Ktor are both open source tools. It seems that Slim with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.88K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Ktor with 6.1K GitHub stars and 470 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Ktor
Pros of Slim
  • 9
    Simple & Small
  • 8
    Kotlin native
  • 7
    Light weight
  • 3
    High performance
  • 33
    Microframework
  • 27
    API
  • 22
    Open source
  • 21
    Php
  • 11
    Fast
  • 8
    Restful & fast framework
  • 7
    Easy Setup, Great Documentation
  • 5
    Modular
  • 5
    Clear and straightforward
  • 5
    Good document to upgrade from previous version
  • 4
    Dependency injection
  • 2
    Composer
  • 2
    Easy to learn

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Cons of Ktor
Cons of Slim
  • 2
    Not self-explanatory: relies on Kotlin "magic"
  • 2
    Relatively fresh technology - not a lot of expertise
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    What is Ktor?

    It is a framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems using the Kotlin programming language.

    What is Slim?

    Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

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    What are some alternatives to Ktor and Slim?
    Spring
    A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
    Micronaut Framework
    It is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice and serverless applications. It features a Dependency Injection and Aspect-Oriented Programming runtime that uses no reflection.
    Golang
    Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
    Spring Boot
    Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.
    Retrofit
    Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface
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