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> in fact I think the very idea of Django and similar frameworks should go away. I find templates cumbersome, hard to read and non-pythonic.

This is incredibly dismissive and hardly a well functioning argument. I don't like to edit html templates, therefor web frameworks shouldn't exist.

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I think that the point here is that html templates are oriented towards writing things that are primarily web sites, and not data-heavy and UI-heavy applications that happen to use web browser as thin client.

I'm somehow trying to solve this problem by using jinja2 macros to the point of abuse and by having relatively large amount of python code that handles generating complex HTML (navigation, tables, forms, widgets...).

for tables use https://github.com/bradleyayers/django-tables2

for forms use https://github.com/gregmuellegger/django-floppyforms

For navigation just use something like http://purecss.io/menus/

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