When comparing Snowball vs go-porterstemmer, the Slant community recommends Snowball for most people. In the question“What are the best Go libraries for Natural Language Processing?” Snowball is ranked 1st while go-porterstemmer is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Snowball is:
Snowball supports Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, SMS, Hangouts, Twitter, Line, WeChat, Slack, Telegram, Viber, Hike, BBM, Kik, GroupMe, Kakao and Skype.
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Pros
Pro Extensive client support
Snowball supports Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, SMS, Hangouts, Twitter, Line, WeChat, Slack, Telegram, Viber, Hike, BBM, Kik, GroupMe, Kakao and Skype.
Cons
Con Not standalone
Snowball requires (some of) the original apps to be installed. This also affects resource usage as the app uses ram for itself plus the ram used by the other apps.