Falcon vs Slim: What are the differences?

Falcon: High-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends. Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks; Slim: A PHP micro framework. Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

Falcon and Slim can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

"Python" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Falcon, while over 27 developers mention "Microframework" as the leading cause for choosing Slim.

Falcon and Slim are both open source tools. Slim with 9.95K GitHub stars and 1.84K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Falcon with 6.8K GitHub stars and 707 GitHub forks.

Coderus, Helpful, and Die Coder GmbH are some of the popular companies that use Slim, whereas Falcon is used by HENNGE, Fivestars, and Vokal. Slim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 29 company stacks & 21 developers stacks; compared to Falcon, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.