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Mutagen vs Spring Tools 4: What are the differences?
What is Mutagen? Cloud-based development using your local tools. It provides real-time file synchronization and flexible network forwarding for developers, extending the reach of local development tools to cloud-based containers and infrastructure.
What is Spring Tools 4? The next generation of tooling for your favorite coding environment. It is tailored for developing enterprise applications. It is largely rebuilt from scratch, it provides world-class support for developing Spring-based enterprise applications, whether you prefer Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, or Atom IDE.
Mutagen and Spring Tools 4 can be categorized as "Integrated Development Environment" tools.
Some of the features offered by Mutagen are:
- Works across local, server, and container infrastructure, including Docker® containers and Kubernetes® containers
- Supports a broad range of platforms, handling their idiosyncrasies automatically while offering users full control
- Open-source tool that gives your full control over your data, how it's transmitted, and where it's stored
On the other hand, Spring Tools 4 provides the following key features:
- Spring Aware
- Information from live-running apps
- IDE agnostic
Mutagen and Spring Tools 4 are both open source tools. It seems that Mutagen with 1.17K GitHub stars and 52 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Spring Tools 4 with 408 GitHub stars and 103 GitHub forks.
