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Pencil vs Trails: What are the differences?

Developers describe Pencil as "A Microframework Inspired by Flask for Rust". A web application microframework for Rust. On the other hand, Trails is detailed as "Modern Web Application Framework for Node.js". Trails is a modern, community-driven web application framework for node.js. It builds on the pedigree of Rails and Grails to accelerate development by adhering to a straightforward, convention-based, API-driven design philosophy.

Pencil and Trails can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Pencil and Trails are both open source tools. It seems that Trails with 1.72K GitHub stars and 75 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Pencil with 871 GitHub stars and 43 GitHub forks.

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      Easy setup and usage
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      ES2015
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      Extensible
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      Modular
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      Open-source
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      Fast
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      Lightweight
    • 4
      Scalable
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      All that you need, without what you don’t
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      ES6/ES7

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    What is Pencil?

    A web application microframework for Rust

    What is Trails?

    Trails is a modern, community-driven web application framework for node.js. It builds on the pedigree of Rails and Grails to accelerate development by adhering to a straightforward, convention-based, API-driven design philosophy.

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