alien vs Macaron

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alien		Macaron
	Project
-	Mentions	2
129	Stars	3,477
-	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	5.9
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
Go	Language	Go
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.

alien

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

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

Macaron

Posts with mentions or reviews of Macaron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.

go-mir - a toolkit to develop RESTful API backend service like develop service of gRPC
10 projects | /r/golang | 31 Mar 2023

Mir is a toolkit to develop RESTful API backend service like develop service of gRPC. It adapt some HTTP framework sush as Gin, Chi, Hertz, Echo, Iris, Fiber, Macaron, Mux, httprouter。
Is it possible to write a well-typed controller/handler in Go?
7 projects | /r/golang | 30 Jun 2022

Flamego and it's predecessor Macaron also allow a lot of flexibility in the handler definition.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing alien and Macaron you can also consider the following projects:

Glue - Glue - Robust Go and Javascript Socket Library (Alternative to Socket.io)

Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework

Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.

Iris - The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket:

mux - A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

go-socket.io - socket.io library for golang, a realtime application framework.

Revel - A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language.