> There is one benefit of choosing based on popularity - it becomes easier to hire for, and more likely to find engineers enthusiastic about the work. In additi

> There is one benefit of choosing based on popularity - it becomes easier to hire for, and more likely to find engineers enthusiastic about the work. In addition, it increases the number of eyes on it, which can surface difficult bugs/edge cases to get addressed. I didn't mean to sound like it isn't a good idea to have a good portion of your reasoning based on popularity. I have done it myself :) . But if your trying to make your framework popular you have to do some advertising (hopefully somewhat honest). I don't blame the Elm devs for publishing some benchmarks particularly when it is some impressive work they have done.