Revel vs Zend Framework: What are the differences?

Revel: A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language. Revel makes it easy to build web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern by relying on conventions that require a certain structure in your application. In return, it is very light on configuration and enables an extremely fast development cycle; Zend Framework: An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Framework 2 is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. Zend Framework 2 uses 100% object-oriented code and utilises most of the new features of PHP 5.3, namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

Revel and Zend Framework can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Go" is the top reason why over 12 developers like Revel, while over 22 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Zend Framework.

Revel and Zend Framework are both open source tools. It seems that Revel with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.33K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Zend Framework with 5.71K GitHub stars and 2.87K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Zend Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Revel, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.