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Dancer vs Grails: What are the differences?

Dancer: Simple but powerful web application framework for Perl. Dancer is a free and open source micro web application framework written in Perl; Grails: An Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM. Grails is a framework used to build web applications with the Groovy programming language. The core framework is very extensible and there are numerous plugins available that provide easy integration of add-on features.

Dancer and Grails belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

Dancer and Grails are both open source tools. It seems that Grails with 2.48K GitHub stars and 945 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Dancer with 446 GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Dancer
Pros of Grails
  • 1
    Fast
  • 1
    Easy
  • 1
    Stable
  • 1
    Microframework
  • 56
    Groovy
  • 40
    Jvm
  • 38
    Rapid development
  • 37
    Gorm
  • 30
    Web framework
  • 25
    Open source
  • 21
    Plugins
  • 17
    Extensible
  • 17
    Easy
  • 14
    Dynamic
  • 6
    Clean architecture (Dependency Injection)
  • 6
    Gradle
  • 5
    Clear what everything does, lots of options
  • 4
    RAD
  • 4
    Agile
  • 4
    Great documentation
  • 3
    Android
  • 3
    Spring
  • 2
    Easy setup
  • 1
    Java web apps with steroid

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Cons of Dancer
Cons of Grails
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    • 3
      Frequent breaking changes
    • 2
      Undocumented features

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    What is Dancer?

    Dancer is a free and open source micro web application framework written in Perl.

    What is Grails?

    Grails is a framework used to build web applications with the Groovy programming language. The core framework is very extensible and there are numerous plugins available that provide easy integration of add-on features.

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