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Framework vs Github followers

Tornado 4,551

Flask 4,019

Bottle 1,381

Pyramid 876

EDIT: Just adding some figures to the debate.

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I've been a Pyramid user for over a year now, I'm active on IRC and the mailing lists, I do not "follow" pyramid on github.

Statistics like this are silly because they rely on people actually wanting to use GitHub and I don't feel the Pyramid community of developers really cares that much for it outside of being a host of the repository.

How about comparing the number of real-life web applications (i.e., not counting final year projects) in each framework, or the number of users each of them serves?

BTW, I've been a long time Pyramid user (since the Pylons days) and can't be happier with my choice.

This is meaningless. Pyramid is a newer framework (newest of those listed?)

Yes and no. Yes, because popularity of a given technology is usually related to the size of its ecosystem/number of tutorials. No, because we are talking about micro-framework, which architecturally use a bunch of loosely-coupled Python components, so having "plugins" is less important than for other frameworks for many use cases.

I went and "starred" and "watched" Pyramid so that it could join the cool club, not really sure what either feature does though.

php has more users than python -> clearly it must be better language argument?

I'd rather compare by design decisions than meaningless numbers.

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