On Jan 26, 8:19 pm, VP <vtp2...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be fair, the most popular option right now is SQLAlchemy, an ORM. > DAL appears to be a minority approach. So, ORM must be good at > something right?
No. The number of people that support a thing has no bearing on that thing's correctness. None whatsoever. Very large numbers of people have supported really bad ideas throughout history, and even still today. Only the merits of the specific case before us matter, not how much support can be found for various options. > To get web2py out of the PR's ditch, I think it's best to refrain from > commenting on perceived weaknesses of Django and other technologies. Agreed. All we need to do is build great sites. And anyway, I don't see why we need to care about Django *at all*. Or any other framework for that matter. Why care? Focus on the platform available to us, i.e. HTTP (5?), CSS (3?), XML, Python (3?), and build the best web development framework for that. It doesn't hurt to consult the open literature (Django, Flask, Pyramid, Pylons, web.py, etc.), but the existing software is only a landmark on the route, not a stumbling block in the road.
