2014 Web Application Framework Trends (PHP / Java / Ruby / Python / Perl)

Introduction

The day before yesterday, I was confused by the feed that the side back shot on the front line in FIFA 15 and it became a super long shot of over 80m.

Now, to change the story, according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index as of December 2014, it is the same as last year. The programming language that ranks the most in comparison is ** Visual Basic **, isn't it?

Although it is the top 20 programming languages, the same problem as which language to adopt when building a Web application is which framework to adopt. The criteria for selecting a framework are not only application requirements, but also the environment, developers, and various other conditions and constraints, and it is necessary to make an appropriate selection based on the characteristics of the framework.

And this year too, there was movement in various frameworks in each language. The change in popularity is similar. So, I would like to sort out a little about what kind of framework there is at the moment of 2014 and what kind of movement it is.

Here, it is often used especially on the server side of web applications.

1. PHP
2. Java
3. Ruby
4. Python
5. Perl

Here is a list of web application frameworks as of 2014 for these five languages.

• The purpose is not to dig deep for the purpose of organizing what is there.
• The above 5 languages are arranged in order of the number of Google search results and have no particular meaning.
• I wanted to summarize other languages such as Scala, Node, and Go, but since there are too many, I narrowed down to these 5 languages.

List of web application frameworks by language

** Sort by language by number of stars on GitHub. ** **

• The item "Google" is the number of results searched by "\ $ {language name} framework \ $ {framework name}"
• Latest Release may not be the latest as it basically refers to / releases on GitHub
• The following items are excluded from the table.
• GitHub with 100 stars or less
• A CMS-like aspect rather than a WEB application framework
• Others that have too little information or are hard to think of as an option at this time

Note) I think it's hard to see if it's a smartphone. ..

PHP

Other than the above PHP Web application framework

Lithium / MicroMVC / ColaPHP / Aura / Simple MVC Framework / Rain Framework / Ethna
Agavi / PRADO / DooPHP / PopPHP / pinoco / Deano / OrePHP / ...etc

Java

Other than the above Java Web application framework

Stripes Framework / JavaServer Faces / Tapestry / ...etc

Ruby

Python

Other than the above Python Web application framework

TurboGears / Cherrypy / Zope / Kay / webapp / ...etc

Perl

Other than the above Perl Web application framework

Sledge / Ark / ...etc

Summary

In summary, there were quite a few names that I heard for the first time. (Especially some of PHP)

However, when I try this, I am surprised again for the first time in a rush. And you can see that most of them continue to update very actively.

This time, I tried to arrange by the number of stars on GitHub, and also added the number of posts on StackOverflow and Qiita, I also discovered that it was unexpectedly like this. There may be interesting discoveries even if you add more various axes.

Laravel has a lot of momentum, there are many types of PHP, and it's fairly distributed. In Ruby, Merb is stopped, Rails is still running alone, and Python is surprisingly Django and Flask have the same number of stars. Toka Toka.

It's also interesting that the trends differ greatly between Japan and overseas. If you compare it again at the end of 2015, it may be a different power map from this year. Then!