Hello! Has someone had a chance to compare Ktor an...
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voddan
10/11/2018, 5:24 PMHello! Has someone had a chance to compare Ktor and ExpressJS? Their approaches seem to be very similar.
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orangy
10/11/2018, 5:46 PM
If you wish raw performance, here is snapshot from TFB. Ktor is twice as fast.
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Dico
10/11/2018, 6:11 PMIs this a test conducted using Kotlin JS target for ktor?
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orangy
10/11/2018, 6:17 PM
No, it’s JVM
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Dico
10/11/2018, 6:18 PMFair enough.
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voddan
10/11/2018, 7:07 PM@orangy why am I not surprised about the performance? 🙂
voddan
10/11/2018, 7:08 PMActually I was wondering if Ktor took some things from ExpressJS, which is much older, but judging by the answers, it did not
voddan
10/11/2018, 7:10 PMThe question appeared after I pitched Ktor to a colleague, and he said "oh, so it is just like ExpressJS in Kotlin"
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Shawn
10/11/2018, 7:11 PMI think the similarities start and end with the ability to register endpoint handlers using lambdas tbh
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kenkyee
10/12/2018, 6:37 AMYour colleague thinks a DSL is what makes a framework? 😂
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voddan
10/12/2018, 8:29 AM@kenkyee my pitch was that "ktor is super small, but it is very easy to connect integration modules to it". The DSL wasn't even mentioned
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kenkyee
10/12/2018, 8:31 AMExpressJS is that... Thought you showed him the DSL...
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