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How can you possibly write an article titled "The Best Web Development Frameworks" and not include Rails, which the vast majority of those frameworks are derivative of anyway? Seems like the only way to do that is by intentionally omitting Ruby - which calls into question the motivations of whoever wrote this article.

They say you should never ascribe to malice what can be well explained by incompetence, but that's an astonishing level of incompetence if that's what it is.

Also, as mentioned in the comments the plethora of PHP frameworks is actually a downer. 1) How do you choose between so many bloody frameworks all trying to do the same thing, 2) Why don't they pool their resources and build one good framework instead of 40 that all suck to some extent?

I don't think it's necessarily incompetence, since in the OpenXava description, they mention that developing with OpenXava is faster than Rails. So, it's not that the author has never heard of it. Truthfully, this article is just a shotgun blast of frameworks that doesn't even tell you what makes them "best".

I also find it astonishing that nothing Ruby-based is even mentioned. I mean old crusty Java web frameworks like Struts and slightly newer bloated Java frameworks like JSF make the best list, but Rails and Sinatra don't?

He edited the article to add Rails, Merb, and Webby at the very bottom. Keep scrolling...

It seems a more appropriate title would be All PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and Python Web Frameworks With At Least Some Traction

A handful of them are considered good because they mimic RoR - yet RoR (or any ruby framework) isn't on the list.

Some of these frameworks still say they're PHP4 compliant. That's no longer a feature but a detriment, please stop using it. If your host can't be bothered to upgrade to a somewhat recent version of PHP5, I'd switch hosts.

I'd imagine that if you are creating a commodity, rather than a bespoke solution, then it's good to offer PHP 4 support to your customers.

So, for example, a shopping cart product built on a legacy framework, might sell better with support for PHP 4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_f...

20 PHP frameworks, 19 CSS frameworks, 18 Javascript frameworks....if there are that many "best" frameworks, how long is the "worst" list?

I was looking for at least several javascript frameworks (server side). Plus the author seems to mix client JS framework ( jQuery, mootools ) and server ( JSMVC ).

How can all of those PHP frameworks be the "best"? Seems like "Exhaustive list of PHP frameworks and some for JS, Java, Python" would be a better title.

You'd think they could at least bother to get the names right.

(hint: it ain't called "Djangoproject")

Also, "PylonsHQ"

"A List of Web Development Frameworks"

FTFY.

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