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I've used Falcon extensively for about 3 years while at LeadPages.

I would say the biggest difference between the two is Molten gives you more out of the box: input validation, doc/schema generation, ORM support, support for multipart/form-data requests (Falcon doesn't actually handle these out of the box!), etc.

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So molten is batteries included essentially, whereas falcon is not.

Like flask versus Django.

Straight question, wouldn’t it have been easier to fork falcon and add the batteries?

Probably not, because many of the differences are fundamental:

* Falcon revolves around the concept of Resources, i.e. classes as the primary handlers of requests; molten revolves around functions,

* Falcon supports Python 2.x,

* automatic dependency injection via type annotations is core to molten.

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