Question

Has anyone used Vork? What has been your experience?
How does it compare to f3 or lithium? I’m building with MongoDB.
Which one performs better?

Answer 1

Due to lack of popularity and the license which is unsuitable for libraries you won’t find many users of this framework. So I’ll give you a placeholder answer. The performance comparison is out of scope here, and could not be objective or meaningful anyway.

I have no clue about MongoDB (their website is pretty slow, which indicates no immediate benefit of researching it further). But I’ve glanced over Vork:

• In comparison to other frameworks it seems a bit disorganized. The naming of include files sans extension is quite unique and actually charming. But the class and directory structure isn’t.
• It follows the Pretend-MVC fallacy.
• But my biggest concern is that it encourages oldschool SQL concatenation and escaping (and the naming of said escape function looks dated).
• The templating API looks interesting, but I did not research that much. (API usability is the crucial part of frameworks, not performance.)
• Website doesn’t appear very inviting, and this impacts the documentation (which isn’t quite complete.)
• On the upside, it comes with a lot of utility code. So if you find an intersection of features that you need, then that’s a reason to try it out.