SlickStack vs Rex: What are the differences?

What is SlickStack? LEMP stack automation for WordPress. SlickStack is a free LEMP stack automation script written in Bash designed to enhance and simplify WordPress provisioning, performance, and security.

What is Rex? the friendly automation framework. Rex is an automation framework that combines Perl and Secure Shell (SSH) for a portable and highly flexible approach to data center infrastructure management and software deployment.

SlickStack and Rex can be primarily classified as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.

Some of the features offered by SlickStack are:

• CloudFlare
• Ubuntu
• Nginx

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

• Puts you in charge: Rex acknowledges that there is more than one way to manage it. It trusts you to be in the best position to decide what to automate and how, allowing you to build the automation tool your situation requires.
• Easy to get on board: automate what you are doing today, and add more tomorrow. Rex is instantly usable, making it ideal and friendly for incremental automation.
• It's just Perl: Perl is a battle-tested, mature language. Whenever you reach the limitations of the built-in Rex features, a powerful programming language and module ecosystem is directly available at your fingertips to seamlessly extend it even in other languages. So after all, it's not just Perl.

SlickStack and Rex are both open source tools. Rex with 620 GitHub stars and 204 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than SlickStack with 210 GitHub stars and 42 GitHub forks.