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What is Netty? Asynchronous event-driven network application framework. Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

What is Primer? CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub. Primer is the basecoat of GitHub, made by nerds just like you who share a passion for HTML and CSS.

Netty can be classified as a tool in the "Concurrency Frameworks" category, while Primer is grouped under "Front-End Frameworks".

"High Performance" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Netty, while over 3 developers mention "simple" as the leading cause for choosing Primer.

Netty and Primer are both open source tools. Netty with 19.9K GitHub stars and 9.05K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Primer with 8.42K GitHub stars and 621 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Netty
Pros of Primer
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    High Performance
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 3
    Just like it
  • 4
    simple
  • 2
    Pretty
  • 1
    Maintained by GitHub

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Cons of Netty
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    Limited resources to learn from
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    What is Netty?

    Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

    What is Primer?

    Primer is the basecoat of GitHub, made by nerds just like you who share a passion for HTML and CSS.

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