JavaScript vs. Permify vs. Scala vs. ZenScript Comparison Chart

Permify is an authorization service designed to help developers build and manage fine-grained, scalable access control systems within their applications. Inspired by Google's Zanzibar, Permify enables the structuring of authorization models, storage of authorization data in preferred databases, and interaction with its API to handle authorization queries across various applications and services. It supports multiple access control models, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), allowing for the creation of granular permissions and policies. Permify centralized authorization logic, abstracting it from the codebase to facilitate easier reasoning, testing, and debugging. It offers flexible policy storage options and provides a role manager to handle RBAC role hierarchies. The platform also supports filtered policy management for efficient enforcement in large, multi-tenant environments.

ZenScript originated from MineTweaker where a simple programming language is needed to allow users without programming knowledge to be able to execute simple commands by following the tutorials for it. Originally MineTweaker had a simple one-line-at-a-time parsed scripting system, but it quickly became clear that it wasn't flexible enough, so a simple parsed language was created. This parsed language worked quite well but was very inefficient as each value was wrapped into its own object. ZenScript allows mixed typed and typeless behavior. You don't need to define types anywhere, the compile will infer them where possible and exhibit typeless behavior when the type is effectively unknown. In nearly all the cases, the type is perfectly known and execution runs at native Java speed. Since there are types, they can be documented and enforced.