lighttpd vs Sanic: What are the differences?

lighttpd: A secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load problems; Sanic: Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. It's based on the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack. On top of being Flask-like, Sanic supports async request handlers.

lighttpd and Sanic can be primarily classified as "Web Servers" tools.

"Lightweight" is the primary reason why developers consider lighttpd over the competitors, whereas "Asyncio" was stated as the key factor in picking Sanic.

Sanic is an open source tool with 12.4K GitHub stars and 1.16K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sanic's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, lighttpd has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Sanic, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.