Ask HN: what do you think are the interesting alternative web frameworks?

7 pointsjohnswamps2 comments

They don't have to be production ready, I'm just looking for lesser-known frameworks that make you think "Huh, I wish this were the way Rails worked" or "This is an interesting way to do things, I wonder how far they'll take it". What makes them interesting?

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Erlang: riak/ nitrogen combo

Scala: lift

Clojure: compojure, enlive.

Smalltalk, seaside

haskell happstack (i think that's the one that's not dead

I wonder what people think of my PHP framework Swiftlet. The latest stable release is still missing some features but it works very well for simple sites.

http://swiftlet.org

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