GCDWebServer vs ambassador

GCDWebServer

The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) (by swisspol)

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Delegation of trait implementations via procedural macros (by hobofan)

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GCDWebServer		ambassador
	Project
3	Mentions	3
6,300	Stars	236
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.6
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Objective-C	Language	Rust
NOASSERTION	License	Apache License 2.0

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GCDWebServer

Posts with mentions or reviews of GCDWebServer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.

Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
5 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 5 May 2023
Most effective approach for building a client/server application (MacOS)
2 projects | /r/swift | 2 May 2023

I use https://github.com/swisspol/GCDWebServer but there are many webservers you can use. You can even use the Apache that is part of the standard MacOS distribution, where you write a standard CGI to make the Mac do things. Python also includes a standard webserver.
What is the simplest way to have local http server in iOS app?
4 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 20 Apr 2022

ambassador

Posts with mentions or reviews of ambassador. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.

The most creative, funny, clever, ridiculous, ... library names!
13 projects | /r/rust | 20 Jan 2023

ambassador is the similar one
Enum variants share Trait while Parent does not - A Better solution?
3 projects | /r/rust | 13 Nov 2022
Problems with Verbosity
1 project | /r/rust | 27 Aug 2021

Just sharing that for delegation there is this ambassador library.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GCDWebServer and ambassador you can also consider the following projects:

CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications

Zewo - Lightweight library for web server applications in Swift on macOS and Linux powered by coroutines.

swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.

apisix - The Cloud-Native API Gateway

Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.

http4swift - A simple HTTP server written in Swift

swift-http - HTTP Implementation for Swift on Linux and Mac OS X

genemichaels - Even formats macros

Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.

Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)

rust-delegate - Rust method delegation with less boilerplate