httpaf VS ocaml-cohttp

Compare httpaf vs ocaml-cohttp and see what are their differences.

httpaf

A high performance, memory efficient, and scalable web server written in OCaml (by inhabitedtype)

ocaml-cohttp

An OCaml library for HTTP clients and servers using Lwt or Async (by mirage)
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httpaf ocaml-cohttp
2 2
533 684
0.6% 1.5%
0.0 8.2
4 months ago 3 days ago
OCaml OCaml
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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httpaf

Posts with mentions or reviews of httpaf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-22.

ocaml-cohttp

Posts with mentions or reviews of ocaml-cohttp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-13.
  • Ocaml for web development
    8 projects | /r/ocaml | 13 Feb 2022
    We (a small company creating specialized inventory management and e-commerce systems) use Dream for web development. Webmachine and Cohttp for creating RESTful APIs. HTTP-clients with Ocurl and Cohttp. We are very happy with our choice of technologies.
  • Cohttp 4.0.0
    1 project | /r/ocaml | 24 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing httpaf and ocaml-cohttp you can also consider the following projects:

dream - Tidy, feature-complete Web framework

ocaml-opium-unikernel - Example unikernel using opium + httpaf (using https://github.com/dinosaure/paf-le-chien)

lwt - OCaml promises and concurrent I/O

assert-combinators - Functional assertion combinators.

ocurl - OCaml bindings to libcurl

ling - Erlang on Xen

reason - Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems

pyparsing - Python library for creating PEG parsers

pyre-check - Performant type-checking for python.

ocaml-h2 - An HTTP/2 implementation written in pure OCaml

ocaml-mssql - A high-level wrapper OCaml SQL Server client library using FreeTDS