pedestal is quite a large project, try to offer a complete solution for building web application in Clojure, from server side to client side, to tooling.
http-kit is a very small and focused library, It just do one thing: talk in HTTP. http-kit need to work together with other libraries like Ring[1] and Compojure[2] to do the server side.
Few good things about http-kit:
1. Very fast and scalable, almost as fast as what you can get from the hardware.
2. Focus, do one thing and do it well, thing about Linux/Unix's philosophy. Personally, I prefer this way of doing software.
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How does compare with all the other async offerings for clojure like aleph and pure netty?
See https://github.com/ptaoussanis/clojure-web-server-benchmarks
I'm curious how it compares to pedestal.io
pedestal is quite a large project, try to offer a complete solution for building web application in Clojure, from server side to client side, to tooling.
http-kit is a very small and focused library, It just do one thing: talk in HTTP. http-kit need to work together with other libraries like Ring[1] and Compojure[2] to do the server side.
Few good things about http-kit: 1. Very fast and scalable, almost as fast as what you can get from the hardware. 2. Focus, do one thing and do it well, thing about Linux/Unix's philosophy. Personally, I prefer this way of doing software.
[1] https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring [2] https://github.com/weavejester/compojure