Onion VS libevent

Compare Onion vs libevent and see what are their differences.

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Onion libevent
508 12
2,852 10,648
6.3% 1.3%
9.6 8.7
9 days ago 7 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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.

Onion

Posts with mentions or reviews of Onion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-07.

libevent

Posts with mentions or reviews of libevent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.
  • Epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022)
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
  • Concurrency Model in JavaScript Runtime Environments
    7 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2022
  • Understand the underlying Javascript - event loop
    2 projects | /r/javascript | 27 Aug 2022
    They're different. Node uses libuv while chromium uses libevent. You're also seeing different APIs for working with the event loop like nextTick() in Node that doesn't exist in browsers.
  • Tmux install script I made to install the latest stable version
    3 projects | /r/tmux | 1 Mar 2022
    Unknown OS, continue trying to install? Menu? Develope this area! Querying Versions on https://libevent.org... Please be patient.
  • Looking for low footprint c++ library to build a REST client
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 23 Dec 2021
  • Io_uring is not an event system
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2021
  • Packaging your Crystal app into a Flatpak
    10 projects | dev.to | 23 May 2021
    app-id: dev.geopjr.Hashbrown runtime: org.gnome.Platform runtime-version: "3.38" sdk: org.gnome.Sdk command: hashbrown finish-args: - --socket=wayland - --socket=fallback-x11 - --share=ipc cleanup: - /include - /lib/pkgconfig - /share/doc - /share/man - "*.a" - "*.la" modules: - name: libevent sources: - type: git url: https://github.com/libevent/libevent.git tag: release-2.1.12-stable - name: hashbrown buildsystem: simple build-commands: - $(pwd)/crystal/bin/crystal build ./src/hashbrown.cr --no-debug --release - install -D -m 0755 hashbrown /app/bin/hashbrown - install -D -m 0644 extra/Hashbrown.desktop /app/share/applications/dev.geopjr.Hashbrown.desktop - install -D -m 0644 extra/icons/logo.svg /app/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/dev.geopjr.Hashbrown.svg - install -D -m 0644 extra/icons/symbolic.svg /app/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/dev.geopjr.Hashbrown-symbolic.svg post-install: - install -D -m 0644 extra/dev.geopjr.Hashbrown.metainfo.xml /app/share/metainfo/dev.geopjr.Hashbrown.metainfo.xml sources: - type: git url: https://github.com/GeopJr/Hashbrown.git tag: v1.2.0 commit: 02ecf5cc5aacc32fc484fd9e348d2b1220168295 - type: archive dest: crystal/ url: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.0.0/crystal-1.0.0-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz sha256: 00211ca77758e99210ec40b8c5517b086d2ff9909e089400f6d847a95e5689a4 - type: git url: https://github.com/jhass/crystal-gobject.git commit: 6468c57f8aa54b71c766d27b1e59e87a09ee8552 dest: lib/gobject - type: git url: https://github.com/elorest/compiled_license.git tag: v0.1.3 commit: f287c2c8c95579688fa5620df954d8cc1272cbbf dest: lib/compiled_license
  • C Deep
    80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021
    libevent - Event loop replacement for network servers. BSD-3-Clause

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Onion and libevent you can also consider the following projects:

libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

Boost.Asio - Asio C++ Library

Koriki - SimpleMenu frontend for Miyoo Mini

minimal-garlicOS - MiniUI for Garlic OS

libev - Full-featured high-performance event loop loosely modelled after libevent

MiniUI-Legacy-Miyoo-Mini - A custom launcher for the Miyoo Mini

Ports-Collection - Ports Collection for Onion

httpp - Micro http server and client written in C++

liburing

Themes - Custom themes for Onion

C++ Actor Framework - An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++

RetroArch - Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.