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Comment by phas0ruk | Hacker News Reader

Flask is decent. Can’t we use that?

You can use whatever you want, can't you?

However, my opinion is that is a PITA that every Flask project has a different structure, unlike a "batteries included" framework like Django, Rails, etc.

Most nontrivial Django websites also have varying structures. At least they did a decade ago when I was working as a consultant specializing in Django. About as much commonality as Flask. Did Django ever figure out a less verbose way of declaring REST APIs with arbitrary serialization?

I agree. Flask is quite nice, as are some of the other things based off it, like FastAPI, and some of the Flask-inspired async frameworks, and the Jinja template engine that Flask uses. All good stuff.

If I had to write a python webapp today, I’d probably try out robyn instead of flask.

https://github.com/sparckles/robyn

Whatever happened to web2py? I remember that being brought up a lot in these discussions…

Stuck for a while in python 2.x world with its "always backward compatible" pledge... then it lost attention I guess. Also, questionable technical choices. Now py 3.5+ compatible, but no compelling reason to use it.

It's in maintenance mode, and still has a role.

However, the focus has moved to py4web [1] which has many of web2py's strengths (including the DAL), but with a more orthodox architecture at the cost of a little more complexity and a slightly steeper learning curve.

[1] https://py4web.com/

Bottle was decent before Flask. Couldn't we use that instead ?

We could, and I did. Though, last update was last year, and v0.13 is unreleased for years.

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