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Comment by jokull | Hacker News Reader

Seconded. Flask is really awesome. The guy behind it (Armin Ronacher) is a beast of a programmer.

Thirded(? Sorry, that's probably a bit too reddit-ish for HN.)

I've been developing with Django for the last two years (a screencast series by ericflo is actually what got me started), and I just recently started work on a major Flask project. Flask is terrific.

What Armin is doing with his curated extensions gallery is one of Flask's biggest strengths. You get all the awesome flexibility of a no-batteries-included architecture, but with a great set of fallback tools if you just want to get up and running fast.

Not to mention SQLAlchemy is just a ridiculously awesome piece of software, and it integrates with Flask very well.

Since you mentioned SQLAlchemy. Not that it's not understandable, but it's a shame how much attention the Django ORM has sucked away from the solid and powerful SQLAlchemy project. It's easy to get hooked on the Django ORM because of the admin contrib component which is tightly coupled with it.

I'm kinda confused - from the homepage, it looks like Flask is Werkzeug plus some extensions. Is Armin, the great thing about Flask ?

I and a lot of people trust his judgement and understanding of the problem domain. Flask uses Jinja2 and Werkzeug (both awesome libraries, and again by the same author and display an amazing understanding of what and what not to do for the respective solution).

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