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Starling vs XMPP: What are the differences?
Developers describe Starling as "A light weight server for reliable distributed message passing". Starling is a powerful but simple messaging server that enables reliable distributed queuing with an absolutely minimal overhead. It speaks the MemCache protocol for maximum cross-platform compatibility. Any language that speaks MemCache can take advantage of Starling's queue facilities. On the other hand, XMPP is detailed as "An open XML technology for real-time communication". It is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.
Starling can be classified as a tool in the "Message Queue" category, while XMPP is grouped under "Container Tools".
Starling is an open source tool with 467 GitHub stars and 63 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Starling's open source repository on GitHub.