On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:13:52 AM UTC-4, Richard Penman wrote: > > "the smartest web hackers I know universally regard web2py as a > fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development—but usually say so > in far more colorful terms."
I just went and re-read the original threads (from jan-2011) where the flask & django guys were attacking web2py. Looking at it a year later, I'm amazed how clueless (or bigotted, take your pick) both Jacob Moss-Kaplan (django) and Armin Ronacher (flask) had been about web2py, and still are. Their arguments boil down to two specific problems: JMK: web2py adds a few more "builtins" to python (i.e., python already has "dict", "list", "len", that's fine. web2py adds "request", "response", "session" and a few others - that's unforgivable, harmful and divisive to the python community at large). And confusing to everyone. AR: What JMK said. And also, if you define classes with __del__ methods that don't call object.__del__, you might leak resources. Doesn't matter that it's a python problem in general, it's web2py's fault. The first is a difference in opinion. The 2nd is just dumb. And up until this morning, I thought this guys weren't playing politics.
