If popularity is a factor one should use PHP. web2py is very actively maintained thanks to Niphlod, Paolo, Anthony, Richard, Leonel, Michele, and many others. We have an excellent team.
You will find old articles because web2py exists since 2007 and it is always backward compatible so those intro articles are not obsolete. Massimo On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 14:30:16 UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: > > nope, I don't. > except for public contributions you can see on github, I did consult once. > Then I just maintain several in-house apps for my current employeer, which > is mostly where redis, mssql, AD and scheduler new features have been > battle-tested before being released to the public > > That being said, at least for public facing and not-so-hardened sites, > shodan reveals something about web2py deployments around (at least the free > searches available) ... it's by a long shot an estimate on the down side of > reality > > https://www.shodan.io/search?query=X-Powered-By%3A+web2py > > On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 8:24:43 PM UTC+2, Dave S wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 7:53:49 AM UTC-7, joeg816 wrote: >>> >>> Are there any marquee sites that are using it? When Rails was hot, they >>> had a few big names. Same with PHP, etc. >>> >> >> I am not sure about "marquee", but Niphlod and Massimo seem to have >> several important accounts. >> >> A couple months back there was a "proud papa" post about an important >> website for use by volunteers helping with an assistance network (Spain or >> Portugal, IIRC). >> >> >>> >>> I like what I have seen of web2py but I am scared off since a lot of the >>> info I find online is several years old. I am sure it works fine but to >>> stay employed in this field, you usually need to use the hot languages and >>> frameworks... >>> >>> >> That can turn into endless tail-chasing, can't it? By the time you find >> out what's hot and then learn the techniques, "they" will have moved on to >> something else. >> >> /dps >> >> >> >>> On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 2:11:38 AM UTC-4, joeg816 wrote: >>>> >>>> I have been doing some research on Python web frameworks and have tried >>>> Django and Flask. They were OK... >>>> >>>> I found a free web2py video on Udemy and really liked the whole >>>> package, especially with the brilliant Admin. I want to take a deep dive >>>> and really learn this stuff. >>>> >>>> What scares me off is that it just doesn't seem to be very popular in >>>> professional Python circles for some reason. It won awards in 2012 but >>>> that was 4 years ago. Is this worth really learning web2py or should I >>>> just use it as a stepping stone to something else? Are there any major >>>> websites that use this and have stuck with it over the years? >>>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
