Paket vs Ninject: What are the differences?

Paket: Dependency manager for .NET and mono projects. It is a dependency manager for .NET and mono projects, which is designed to work well with NuGet packages and also enables referencing files directly from Git repositories or any HTTP resource. It enables precise and predictable control over what packages the projects within your application reference; Ninject: The ninja of .net dependency injectors. It is a lightning-fast, ultra-lightweight dependency injector for .NET applications. It helps you split your application into a collection of loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive pieces, and then glue them back together in a flexible manner. By using it to support your software's architecture, your code will become easier to write, reuse, test, and modify.

Paket and Ninject can be primarily classified as "Dependency Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by Paket are:

• dependency manager for .NET
• Support for NuGet packages
• Support for git repositories

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

• Focused
• Sleek
• Fast

Paket and Ninject are both open source tools. It seems that Ninject with 2.25K GitHub stars and 522 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Paket with 1.5K GitHub stars and 452 GitHub forks.