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  5. Mono vs Vapor

Mono vs Vapor

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Overview

Mono
Mono
Stacks94
Followers59
Votes1
GitHub Stars11.4K
Forks3.8K
Vapor
Vapor
Stacks117
Followers217
Votes65

Vapor vs Mono: What are the differences?

Vapor: A type-safe web framework for Swift. Vapor is the first true web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive foundation for your app without tying you to any single server implementation; Mono: *Open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework *. It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

Vapor and Mono can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Vapor are:

  • Pure Swift (No makefiles, module maps)
  • Modular
  • Beautifully expressive

On the other hand, Mono provides the following key features:

  • Cross platform
  • Open source
  • Implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework

Vapor and Mono are both open source tools. It seems that Vapor with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.02K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Mono with 8.19K GitHub stars and 3.28K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Vapor has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7 company stacks & 31 developers stacks; compared to Mono, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Mono
Mono
Vapor
Vapor

It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

Vapor is the first true web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive foundation for your app without tying you to any single server implementation.

Cross platform ;Open source; Implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework
Pure Swift (No makefiles, module maps);Modular;Beautifully expressive
Statistics
GitHub Stars
11.4K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
3.8K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
94
Stacks
117
Followers
59
Followers
217
Votes
1
Votes
65
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1
    It was great, pre-dotnetcore
Pros
  • 13
    Fast
  • 11
    Swift
  • 10
    Type-safe
  • 6
    Great for apis
  • 5
    Compiled to machine code
Cons
  • 1
    Server side swift is still in its infancy
  • 1
    Not as much support available.
Integrations
Entity Framework
Entity Framework
Mac OS X
Mac OS X
C#
C#
Windows
Windows
Debian
Debian
Swift
Swift

What are some alternatives to Mono, Vapor?

Node.js

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Rails

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Django

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Laravel

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

.NET

.NET

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core

A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

Symfony

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

Spring

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.

Spring Boot

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.

Android SDK

Android SDK

Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.

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