Rust-Bio VS Iron

Compare Rust-Bio vs Iron and see what are their differences.

Rust-Bio

This library provides implementations of many algorithms and data structures that are useful for bioinformatics. All provided implementations are rigorously tested via continuous integration. (by rust-bio)

Iron

An Extensible, Concurrent Web Framework for Rust (by iron)
Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
Rust-Bio Iron
9 8
1,479 6,122
2.4% 0.0%
6.7 0.0
2 days ago over 1 year ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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.

Rust-Bio

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rust-Bio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-01.
  • bioinformatic libraries and zig?
    2 projects | /r/Zig | 1 Jan 2023
    Does anyone know of zig native libraries for bioinformatics (here is a Rust example https://rust-bio.github.io/ )? It seems as though one could pull in a lot of bioinformatics C libraries such as done with https://github.com/brentp/hts-zig.
  • Proteomics search engine written in Rust
    5 projects | /r/rust | 5 Nov 2022
    e.g. Rust-Bio
  • What are your top 3-5 programming languages and why?
    2 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 4 Aug 2022
    I would start with the book and then rust-bio library. Rust is a pretty low level language compared to R/Python. It’s an especially good fit for writing efficient tools that make use of the kinds of algorithms / data structures that are implemented in rust-bio.
  • I have to admit. The free code camp course is a bit more sparing than I would have preferred. How did everyone learn Rust?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 4 Dec 2021
    Absolutely! It already is, e.g., https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-bio. I'm moving from the academia/nonprofit world into industry bioinformatics, and I intend to use Rust as much as possible. I've already replaced as much of my Python as possible with Rust. I feel I'm able to create larger, more complex programs with Rust because I have the compiler to keep me from making common mistakes that are so easy to make in dynamically typed languages like Perl and Python. It might take longer to write a program initially, but I've started to create a library of functions I can paste together to do things like parse a positive integer, find a bunch of files with a certain file extension, search through data for a pattern, parse CSV files, etc. Writing my latest book has provided even more common patterns I keep finding I use over and over.
  • Whats your favourite open source Rust project that needs more recognition?
    66 projects | /r/rust | 11 Oct 2021
    Well, someone mentioned https://rust-bio.github.io/
  • How can one make Rust excel in the Sciences
    3 projects | /r/rust | 26 Sep 2021
    So generally stuff in this maths/numerical space. The term is a bit deceptive because it rarely means domain-specific science libraries like rust-bio even thought that might be what you think when you hear "scientific computing".

Iron

Posts with mentions or reviews of Iron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
  • Options for thread-per-request or thread-per-connection web servers?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 22 Apr 2023
    I've written many things using Iron and it's been fine. It's not particularly developed any more but I am not aware of any major outstanding issues.
  • Rocket v0.5-rc3 is out!
    6 projects | /r/rust | 24 Mar 2023
    I don't miss the time when we basically only had Iron
  • Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2022
    iron
  • How do I chiose rust web framework in 2022?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 10 May 2022
    There're many web framework in rust, such as SergioBenitez/Rocket , actix/actix-web ,poem-web/poem , iron/iron . How do I chiose, anyone suggestion?
  • Noob Help
    3 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jan 2022
    I'm not sure which definition of backend you are thinking of here. In case you simply mean "server side", here are a couple of libraries that might be of use: iron - been a while since I used it, used it for a couple smaller projects rocket (nightly only) - no personal experience, but a lot of people seem to like it diesel - a bit complex to wrap your head around, but once you get the idea it's really nice. Definitely check out the examples.
  • Whats your favourite open source Rust project that needs more recognition?
    66 projects | /r/rust | 11 Oct 2021
    it's taken by a web framework https://github.com/iron/iron
  • Building a shared vision for Async Rust
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2021
    Your comment touches on a few misconceptions I see a lot.

    Firstly, `reqwest` exposes both an async and a synchronous API, allowing the developer to choose which one to use. They are largely interchangeable code-wise. [1]

    Secondarily, and more broadly, async is possible to opt out of. You must understand that most web and network related libraries will be async by default for performance, because people who write in Rust and people who write web servers typically care greatly about performance. This is the intersection of those two groups. That being said, there are options outside of that ecosystem. [2]

    If you truly want to use an asynchronous library without migrating your application to run entirely on an async runtime like tokio, you can run it inside of a synchronous function without much trouble. I've put together a playground link for you. [3]

    1. https://docs.rs/reqwest/0.11.2/reqwest/blocking/index.html

    2. Iron: https://github.com/iron/iron

  • Porting a serverless chatbot from Python to Rust
    11 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021
    There are several web frameworks for Rust: Rocket, Actix, Warp, Iron - but only Actix has released a stable 1.0 release, and there has been considerable controversy over how it uses unsafe Rust.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rust-Bio and Iron you can also consider the following projects:

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

dash - Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.

Gotham - A flexible web framework that promotes stability, safety, security and speed.

Sapper - A lightweight web framework built on hyper, implemented in Rust language.

The FastCGI Rust implementation. - Native Rust library for FastCGI

frank_jwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Rust.

kanidm - Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform

uniffi-rs - a multi-language bindings generator for rust

sniprun - A neovim plugin to run lines/blocs of code (independently of the rest of the file), supporting multiples languages

clickhouse-rs - Asynchronous ClickHouse client library for Rust programming language.