TechEmpower Announces End of Framework Benchmarks Project After Decade of Industry Impact
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Summary
TechEmpower announces the end of their Framework Benchmarks project after more than a decade. The benchmarks, which started in 2013, grew from an experiment into an industry reference point covering hundreds of frameworks across dozens of programming languages. The project helped developers understand how technology choices impact raw performance and became a shared passion project between the TechEmpower team and the web development community.
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Today, with a full heart, we're announcing that we're sunsetting the project
When we first published results back in 2013, we had no idea this experiment would grow into a reference point for the entire industry
Over the years, the benchmarks have expanded to cover hundreds of frameworks across dozens of languages
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