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Pros of OpenFL
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    • 953
      Large community
    • 819
      Open source
    • 767
      Easy deployment
    • 487
      Great frameworks
    • 387
      The best glue on the web
    • 235
      Continual improvements
    • 185
      Good old web
    • 145
      Web foundation
    • 135
      Community packages
    • 125
      Tool support
    • 35
      Used by wordpress
    • 34
      Excellent documentation
    • 29
      Used by Facebook
    • 23
      Because of Symfony
    • 21
      Dynamic Language
    • 17
      Easy to learn
    • 17
      Cheap hosting
    • 15
      Very powerful web language
    • 14
      Awesome Language and easy to implement
    • 14
      Fast development
    • 14
      Because of Laravel
    • 13
      Composer
    • 12
      Flexibility, syntax, extensibility
    • 9
      Easiest deployment
    • 8
      Readable Code
    • 8
      Fast
    • 7
      Short development lead times
    • 7
      Most of the web uses it
    • 7
      Worst popularity quality ratio
    • 7
      Fastestest Time to Version 1.0 Deployments
    • 6
      Simple, flexible yet Scalable
    • 6
      Faster then ever
    • 5
      Open source and large community
    • 4
      Cheap to own
    • 4
      Has the best ecommerce(Magento,Prestashop,Opencart,etc)
    • 4
      Is like one zip of air
    • 4
      Open source and great framework
    • 4
      Large community, easy setup, easy deployment, framework
    • 4
      Easy to use and learn
    • 4
      Easy to learn, a big community, lot of frameworks
    • 4
      Great developer experience
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      I have no choice :(
    • 2
      Hard not to use
    • 2
      Walk away
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      Interpreted at the run time
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      FFI
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      Safe the planet
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      Used by STOMT
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      Fault tolerance
    • 2
      Great flexibility. From fast prototyping to large apps
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      Simplesaml
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      Bando
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      Secure
    • 1
      It can get you a lamborghini
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      Secure

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    Cons of OpenFL
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        So easy to learn, good practices are hard to find
      • 16
        Inconsistent API
      • 8
        Fragmented community
      • 6
        Not secure
      • 3
        No routing system
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        Hard to debug
      • 2
        Old

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      What is OpenFL?

      It enables creative expression for the desktop, mobile and web. Enterprise applications and best-selling games are made with it, publishing native, Flash and HTML5 applications using one seamless toolset.

      What is PHP?

      Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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