Cocoa (OS X) vs Ratpack: What are the differences?

What is Cocoa (OS X)? The Cocoa frameworks consist of libraries, APIs, and runtimes that form the development layer for all of OS X. Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is compiled to run at incredible speed, yet employs a truly dynamic runtime making it uniquely flexible. Because Objective-C is a superset of C, it is easy to mix C and even C++ into your Cocoa applications.

What is Ratpack? A toolkit for web applications on the JVM. It is a set of Java libraries for building scalable HTTP applications It is a lean and powerful foundation. Its apps are lightweight, fast, composable with other tools and libraries, easy to test and enjoyable to develop..

Cocoa (OS X) and Ratpack belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

Ratpack is an open source tool with 1.81K GitHub stars and 366 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ratpack's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Cocoa (OS X) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Ratpack, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.