Saturn vs Spring MVC

Spring MVC vs Saturn: What are the differences?

What is Spring MVC? A Java framework which is used to build web applications. A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.

What is Saturn? Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern. It is a web development framework written in F# which implements the server-side MVC pattern. Many of its components and concepts will seem familiar to anyone with experience in other web frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Python’s Django.

Spring MVC and Saturn can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Spring MVC are:

• Clear separation of roles
• Customizable binding and validation
• Adaptability

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

• Combines the well known MVC pattern with the power of FP and F# to make web programming fun and easy
• Builds on top of highly optimized, and battle tested technologies such as ASP.NET Core, Giraffe and Kestrel
• Provides set of tools, templates and guides that makes creating and maintaining applications seamlessly

Spring MVC is an open source tool with 33.7K GitHub stars and 22.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring MVC's open source repository on GitHub.