"The BFED will carefully select third party code based on the quality of the code itself by reviewing source code, not based on the popularity of said code. He/

"The BFED will carefully select third party code based on the quality of the code itself by reviewing source code, not based on the popularity of said code. He/she favours reliability over popularity every time." The power of popularity should not be underestimated, there are very large and powerful network effects that popularity brings to the table. Popular code -has more tutorials/blog/books written about it -has more Q & A on Stackoverflow -is easier to hire for All frameworks have problems with better designed frameworks having less. For popular frameworks you're in luck, because somebody has already figured out all the work-arounds to common problems. But on an unpopular one you have to figure out all those work-arounds yourself.