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Atmosphere vs Vapor: What are the differences?
What is Atmosphere? Realtime Client Server Framework for the JVM, supporting WebSockets and Cross-Browser Fallbacks Support. The Atmosphere Framework contains client and server side components for building Asynchronous Web Applications. The majority of popular frameworks are either supporting Atmosphere or supported natively by the framework. The Atmosphere Framework supports all major Browsers and Servers.
What is Vapor? A type-safe web framework for Swift. Vapor is the first true web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive foundation for your app without tying you to any single server implementation.
Atmosphere and Vapor belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.
"Cross-Browse" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Atmosphere, while over 4 developers mention "Fast" as the leading cause for choosing Vapor.
Atmosphere and Vapor are both open source tools. Vapor with 16.8K GitHub stars and 997 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Atmosphere with 3.34K GitHub stars and 720 GitHub forks.
Pros of Atmosphere
- JVM3
- Cross-Browse3
- WebSockets2
- Open source2
Pros of Vapor
- Fast13
- Swift11
- Type-safe10
- Great for apis6
- Readable5
- Compiled to machine code5
- Good Abstraction5
- Asynchronous5
- Maintainable3
- Complete1
- Mature1
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Cons of Atmosphere
Cons of Vapor
- Server side swift is still in its infancy1
- Not as much support available.1