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Add to SafariWhen comparing Iris vs Actix, the Slant community recommends Actix for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” Actix is ranked 22nd while Iris is ranked 56th.
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Pros
Pro No need to find and install external libraries
Iris is a "batteries included" web framework, which means that a lot of features already come out of the box. This way you don't have to spend time and find third-party libraries to integrate to the framework for most of the tasks you need to complete.
Pro Efficiency
Efficiency by using a light engine.
Pro Development
Pro API
If you're familiar with expressjs or other modern web frameworks, Iris will make you feel at home.
Pro More than feature complete
Pro More than 250 examples
More than 250 examples for implementing web application.
Pro Low amount of bugs
Most issues are questions, few bug reports and if a bug is found it's quickly patched.
Pro Good for big projects
Iris is a good framework for big projects and the author helps solving problems.
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 Previously experience with net/http
Previously experience with the Go's standard net/http package is necessary for you to move forward with Iris.
Con Author copies code
