Emil vs Eclair

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Emil		Eclair
	Project
-	Mentions	21
36	Stars	1,211
-	Growth	1.0%
8.5	Activity	8.7
4 days ago	Latest Commit	1 day ago
Scala	Language	Scala
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Emil

Posts with mentions or reviews of Emil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Emil yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Eclair

Posts with mentions or reviews of Eclair. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.

Serious Question about Bitcoin
15 projects | /r/Bitcoin | 4 Jan 2023

eclair, developed by ACINQ.
Eclair release 0.8.0 imminent
1 project | /r/lightningnetwork | 25 Oct 2022
Question about the fee policy of inbound channels
1 project | /r/lightningnetwork | 30 Aug 2022

for eclair it is configured in eclair.conf https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/blob/master/docs/Configure.md
Bitcoin falls to fresh 18-month low as crypto meltdown deepens
2 projects | /r/news | 16 Jun 2022
Eclair Lightning Setup with Bitcoin Core
2 projects | /r/Bitcoin | 15 Jun 2022
Resumiu bem
1 project | /r/investimentos | 15 May 2022
I use electrum and BTC more than ledger and eth
3 projects | /r/Electrum | 13 Jan 2022
Electrum Lighting channels keep force closing on me.
1 project | /r/lightningnetwork | 19 Sep 2021

Seems to be a known Eclair problem. Which is unfortunate since Eclair is the only implementation with trampoline routing afaik. I'd try reporting it to the Electrum devs.
Is there a simple Windows Lightning node program to install & connect to my full bitcoin core node?
5 projects | /r/lightningnetwork | 11 Sep 2021
Any good lightning wallets to start with?
11 projects | /r/Bitcoin | 17 Aug 2021

eclair, developed by ACINQ.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Emil and Eclair you can also consider the following projects:

pdf4s - Simplified wrapper to create PDFs in Scala

lightning - Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance

scala-pool - An object pool for Scala

phoenix - Phoenix is a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet using Lightning to send/receive payments.

PureConfig - A boilerplate-free library for loading configuration files

pytorch-lightning - Pretrain, finetune and deploy AI models on multiple GPUs, TPUs with zero code changes.

ScalaSTM - A library-based Software Transactional Memory (STM) for Scala, coupled with transactional sets and maps

umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.

media4s - Scala command-line wrapper around ffmpeg, ffprobe, ImageMagick, and other tools relating to media.

Scala Native - Your favorite language gets closer to bare metal.

lnd - Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️