Spring-boot vs Actix
When comparing Spring-boot vs Actix, the Slant community recommends Spring-boot for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” Spring-boot is ranked 9th while Actix is ranked 22nd. The most important reason people chose Spring-boot is:
Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.
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Pros
Pro Inherits all of Spring's strengths
Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.
Pro Preconfigured starters
Pro Fast prototyping
Spring boot is built for fast prototyping.
Pro Kick down to Spring
Pro Blazingly fast
Pro Feature-rich
Actix provides a lot of features out of box. WebSockets, HTTP/2, pipelining etc
Pro Type-safe
Forget about stringly typed objects, from request to response, everything has types
Pro Extensible
Easily create your own libraries that any Actix application can use
Cons
Con Lacking in UI development
While actually very good and with a very complete and rich feature set to develop and maintain code on the server side, it still doesn't provide any rich framework for building good user interfaces.