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Dancer vs Phalcon: What are the differences?

Developers describe Dancer as "Simple but powerful web application framework for Perl". Dancer is a free and open source micro web application framework written in Perl. On the other hand, Phalcon is detailed as "Web framework delivered as a C-extension for PHP". Phalcon is a web framework implemented as a C extension offering high performance and lower resource consumption.

Dancer and Phalcon can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Dancer and Phalcon are both open source tools. It seems that Phalcon with 9.74K GitHub stars and 1.78K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Dancer with 446 GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Dancer
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    Fast
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    Easy
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    Stable
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    Microframework
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    Fast
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    High performance
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    Open source
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    Fast and easy to use
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    Scalable
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    Versatile
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    Fiexble
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    Automatic routing
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    It is easy and fast
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    Is very good
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    Low overhead
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    Dependency injection
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    Awesome
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    Easy and fast
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    Great for API
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    Clean Architecture
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    Modularity
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    Easy Setup
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    Very customizable

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Cons of Dancer
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    • 4
      Support few databases
    • 2
      Very bad documentation

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    What is Dancer?

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

    What is Phalcon?

    Phalcon is a web framework implemented as a C extension offering high performance and lower resource consumption.

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