@timothycrosley, if you're still monitoring this thread... :) ... a handful of questions:
Is HUG "production ready"? Could or should I use this to power a service with thousands of paying users? Is anyone currently doing this?
Is HUG likely to be around in a couple of years? I'm sure we all hope that it will be :) I guess I'm curious about how much time and resources you can dedicate to this.
Perhaps in summary I should just ask: why wouldn't developers just use Django, for example? While Django may be comparatively complex it also brings a degree of confidence, being "battle hardened" and having a recent cash injection from Mozilla. (I'm sure other frameworks may have similar boasts.)
I appreciate that these questions might be seen as cynical or snarky -- they're not intended to be, I'm genuinely curious. There's a huge amount of frameworks churn at the moment. It seems like a precarious area to be launching a product, and some confidence-boosting info regarding longevity and production-suitability would be greatly appreciated.