When comparing Ratchet vs Tizen, the Slant community recommends Tizen for most people. In the question“What are the best frameworks for creating mobile web apps?” Tizen is ranked 6th while Ratchet is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Tizen is:
Some parts of the OS are open source.
Specs
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Open source
Some parts of the OS are open source.
Pro Fast
Pro HTML5-based
Cons
Con Seems abandoned
8 months without updating, browser support not very clear
Con Based on EFL libraries
A perfect experience of a developer working with EFL: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
Con Worst Code Base
Amihai Neiderman, a Kaspersky Labs researcher said, “It may be the worst code I’ve ever seen, Everything you can do wrong there, they do it. You can see that nobody with any understanding of security looked at this code or wrote it.”
Con Lack of apps
Con Aesthetically unappealing
Con Lack of security
With the recent discoveries of a number of security flaws, tizen is no longer a secure OS that it advertises.