ocaml-webmachine VS lwt

Compare ocaml-webmachine vs lwt and see what are their differences.

ocaml-webmachine

A REST toolkit for OCaml (by inhabitedtype)
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ocaml-webmachine lwt
1 5
224 677
0.0% 0.9%
0.0 6.3
over 2 years ago 5 days ago
OCaml OCaml
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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ocaml-webmachine

Posts with mentions or reviews of ocaml-webmachine. 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.

lwt

Posts with mentions or reviews of lwt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-02.
  • Por que aprender OCaml?
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2023
  • Ocaml for web development
    8 projects | /r/ocaml | 13 Feb 2022
    Here is link number 1 - Previous text "Lwt"
    8 projects | /r/ocaml | 13 Feb 2022
    I do only very basic web development but have been generally happy with it. One problem I hit was that mssql only works with one of OCaml's async libraries (Async) whereas multipart forms only works with the other, incompatible, async library (Lwt).
  • From TypeScript to ReScript
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2022
    I have to admit I don't know much about ReScript and only have very basic exposure to OCAML, here is how you do await in it:

    https://github.com/ocsigen/lwt

    The `let* in` is a generic syntax for monads, it doesn't need a special one just for promise. This was in fact a debate back when async/await was in consideration for ECMAScript, but special syntax is hip so now we have `async/await` for Promise, `.?` for optionals and `flatMap` for arrays, basically the same thing.

  • Dream – Tidy Web Framework for OCaml and ReasonML
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2021
    Dream doesn't have much of a system call dependency footprint itself. It's basically just a convention for plugging request -> response functions into a web server. Some of its native dependencies will have to be replaced by Node equivalents. Soon after that, it would be portable to Node.

    There is already work underway to port Dream to Mirage, to run in unikernels: https://github.com/aantron/dream/pull/22

    Lwt, Dream's promise library, is itself getting ported to run on top of libuv: https://github.com/ocsigen/lwt/issues/813

    libuv is, of course, the I/O library that powers Node, so it might be practical to run Dream as a native node module very soon after doing this.

    (As an aside, I'm supposed to work on that libuv project, but instead I've been working on Dream :P)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ocaml-webmachine and lwt you can also consider the following projects:

async - Jane Street Capital's asynchronous execution library

dream - Tidy, feature-complete Web framework

sihl - A modular functional web framework

ocurl - OCaml bindings to libcurl

genType - Auto generation of idiomatic bindings between Reason and JavaScript: either vanilla or typed with TypeScript/FlowType.

ocaml-cohttp - An OCaml library for HTTP clients and servers using Lwt or Async

soupault - Static website generator based on HTML element tree rewriting

rescript-compiler - The compiler for ReScript.

melange - A mixture of tooling combined to produce JavaScript from OCaml & Reason

Tomorrowland - Lightweight Promises for Swift & Obj-C

from-typescript-to-rescript - Frontend of https://Inhyped.com written in TypeScript and rewritten in ReScript