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Netty vs Protoactor: What are the differences?
What is Netty? Asynchronous event-driven network application framework. Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.
What is Protoactor? Next generation Actor Model framework. It is a Next generation Actor Model framework. It introduces "Actor Standard Protocol", a predefined contract of base primitives which can be consumed by different language implementations. This is a game changer in the field of actor systems, you are now free to pick and choose languages for your different actor based microservices in a way never seen before.
Netty and Protoactor belong to "Concurrency Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Netty is an open source tool with 24.1K GitHub stars and 11.5K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Netty's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Netty
- High Performance9
- Easy to use4
- Just like it3
Pros of Protoactor
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Cons of Netty
- Limited resources to learn from2