rings VS ice

Compare rings vs ice and see what are their differences.

rings

Rings is a structured peer-to-peer network implementation using WebRTC, Chord DHT, and full WebAssembly (WASM) support. (by RingsNetwork)

ice

All-in-one solution for creating networked applications with RPC, pub/sub, server deployment, and more. (by zeroc-ice)
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rings ice
4 3
179 1,975
2.2% 0.4%
8.9 9.8
1 day ago about 16 hours ago
Rust C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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rings

Posts with mentions or reviews of rings. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.

ice

Posts with mentions or reviews of ice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-22.
  • The Rise and Fall of Corba (2006)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2023
    We still don't have anything that can do what CORBA could do. gRPC doesn't even come close.

    If you are interested in this type of technology, I recommend looking at ZeroC's Ice. https://zeroc.com

    It's CORBA with all the warts removed, and a lot of other useful stuff added.

  • Strive for simplicity: sanctions, transactions and a big refactoring
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Sep 2022
    Are you saying: “This solution does not look particularly great”? Well, there's more. The system was not just your average, boring product, it was a modern and fancy distributed system, so it used a framework called Zeroc Ice. This is an RPC framework that also provides deployment configuration, service discovery, SSL encryption and more. By itself it’s rather interesting, but in our case it was used almost everywhere. Majority of the functions in the system were exposed as RPCs, which made them effectively globally visible. And they could call other RPCs and they called even more. And every call produced some side effects that were quite often used in condition expressions of “Algorithms” defined with DSL. These conditions were of course quite heavily nested. As a result, even though we could see in the monitoring interface which steps were already passed, it was almost impossible to tell what would happen next.
  • A structured p2p network implemented over WASM and WebRTC (pure Rust)
    2 projects | /r/rust | 21 Jul 2022
    What is ICE? In-circuit emulation? RPC framework?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rings and ice you can also consider the following projects:

rust-tcp-holepunch - P2P Communication across Network Address Translators with TCP

erpc - Embedded RPC

toxic - A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client

PrimeHack-Updater - An Updater for PrimeHack

chamomile - Lightweight p2p library. Support build robust connection on decentralized network.

nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application

datachannel-rs - Rust wrappers for libdatachannel

SteamLauncher - A LaunchBox/BigBox plugin designed to allow games and/or roms to be easily launched through Steam.

OpenMOLE - Workflow engine for exploration of simulation models using high throughput computing

steam-buddy - A web interface for managing Steam remotely

matchbox - Painless peer-to-peer WebRTC networking for rust wasm (and native!)

pegasus-frontend - A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.