When comparing Irrlicht vs Babylon.js, the Slant community recommends Babylon.js for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D game engines?” Babylon.js is ranked 8th while Irrlicht is ranked 49th. The most important reason people chose Babylon.js is:
Thanks to the increasing popularity of Babylon, it has a growing community of helpful developers. It's easy to find help on their [forum](http://www.html5gamedevs.com/forum/16-babylonjs/).
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Pros
Pro Lots of examples and docs
Many working examples to study and learn. You can easily experiment modifying an example code to grok in full how the engine works. In the beginning of your learning curve, the example code will offer you many useful code snippets.

Pro Free and open source

Pro Good polymorphic design
If you are considering writing your own engine with openGL, you might want to consider Irrlicht instead. It makes many features of any engine worth its salt easy, including events, serialization, nodes, animators, materials, logging, and animation. Bring your own sound and networking.

Pro Lightweight
Especially if you compile it yourself, it can be very light in memory usage.
Pro Easy to entry level C++ experience
If you want to start game developing with C++, then Irrlicht is a good candidate since it removes most of the complications in game making in C++. It will let you obtain experience in programming and games at the same time.
Pro Support for multiple formats
This engine supports multiple formats for 3D objects and textures.
Pro Small (but helpful) community
Thanks to the increasing popularity of Babylon, it has a growing community of helpful developers. It's easy to find help on their forum.
Pro A good amount of easy to understand resources to learn from
Babylon provides a playground where you can explore examples and play with the code.
The official documentation offers a wide variety of well-written tutorials on topics from beginner to advanced.
Additionally, there are many tutorials written by the community available that you can find by doing a google search.
Pro Great base shader material
Pro Actively developed
Babylon has great project health, with activity on Github daily for bug fixes and new features.
Cons

Con Outdated
Obsolete over 5 years ago. While the engine is being worked on with plans for new features and support, the movement is slow, leaving many engines far more advanced in certain areas.
Con Not a game engine
This is a 3D graphics engine similar to Ogre3D. Thus, it doesn't provide any pathfinding or physics support. Support for those will have to be added by the dev.
Con Young project
Babylon is quite young compared to many of it's competitors (released in 2013). The community is still somewhat small, however growing quickly.
Con Still evolving
