Spring Framework vs Yesod: What are the differences?
What is Spring Framework? An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform..
What is Yesod? A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI. Yesod believes in the philosophy of making the compiler your ally, not your enemy. We use the type system to enforce as much as possible, from generating proper links, to avoiding XSS attacks, to dealing with character encoding issues. In general, if your code compiles, it works. And instead of declaring types everywhere you let the compiler figure them out for you with type inference.
Spring Framework and Yesod can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Spring Framework are:
- Lightweight
- Dependency Injection
- Transaction Management
On the other hand, Yesod provides the following key features:
- safety & security guaranteed at compile time
- developer productivity: tools for all your basic web development needs
- raw performance
Spring Framework and Yesod are both open source tools. It seems that Spring Framework with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Yesod with 2.11K GitHub stars and 329 GitHub forks.
Monkey Exchange, CrawlorSoft, and engel80 are some of the popular companies that use Spring Framework, whereas Yesod is used by DoxIQ, FP Complete, and SimplyRETS. Spring Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to Yesod, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
