Django Channels vs Play: What are the differences?

What is Django Channels? It extends Django's abilities beyond HTTP - to handle WebSockets, chat protocols, IoT protocols. It does this by taking the core of Django and adding a fully asynchronous layer underneath, running Django itself in a synchronous mode but handling connections and sockets asynchronously, and giving you the choice to write in either style.

What is Play? The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala. Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

Django Channels and Play can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Django Channels and Play are both open source tools. It seems that Play with 11.3K GitHub stars and 3.78K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Django Channels with 3.94K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks.

Coursera, Zalando, and Keen are some of the popular companies that use Play, whereas Django Channels is used by Webscope.io, NUU, and Deepomatic. Play has a broader approval, being mentioned in 157 company stacks & 252 developers stacks; compared to Django Channels, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.