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Those who work on these frameworks, and those interested in http framework benchmarking.

Some of the ideas developed in these frameworks percolate down to the PLs that use them and to the libraries they use, which benefits everyone. These frameworks also test new language features.

Particularly the case with PHP and Zend from 5.0+ days. Are there other examples across other stacks?

It’s on the front page because enough of us are interested. If you aren’t interested, just read one of the other articles on the front page, and leave us to discuss this

Lithium development started 8 months ago and is not yet backed by a company. So it has clearly not a lot of traction yet. Just give it some time.

I have nothing against Lithium and I wish it become successful, I just don't understand the point of the benchmark

The benchmark is clearly not perfect. But it is great for the community: It pushes all the framework maintainers to optimize their code, so kind of all users of all frameworks are indirectly positively impacted.

Because frameworks like this show mainstream framework developers where the next optimization is.

It would be interesting to filter the ones that are used?