> web2py appears both bad and unpopular to me. Regarding popularity, for some time now the web2py Google Group has had more postings than the Django group, and the web2py group membership has been growing at a much…
> If I found myself talking to someone who had used web2py, I'd be very interested in their critique, but sadly in every case so far, it's been second hand. In two years of active mailing list participation, I've…
> the smartest web hackers I know universally regard web2py as a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development Would you care to elaborate on that? Have any of these smart web hackers used web2py for real…
Well, according to InfoWorld, web2py is the best Python framework (http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/pillars-p...). It also won a 2011 Bossie Award for open source development software…
> try modeling a school, for example, with the relationships between teachers, students, parents, and classes. The DAL can be used to model any set of tables and relationships that can be created in an RDBMS, so…
Great. Thanks.
It would be interesting to see how you tried it in the DAL and the alternative that you found easier in SQLAlchemy. Can you show an example?
No, the 1.0 vs. .08 is for the entire eight year period depicted, during most of which Node.js didn't even exist. What's relevant is the trend and how they compare right now -- RoR is going down, Node is going up, and…
> web2py appears both bad and unpopular to me. Regarding popularity, for some time now the web2py Google Group has had more postings than the Django group, and the web2py group membership has been growing at a much…
> If I found myself talking to someone who had used web2py, I'd be very interested in their critique, but sadly in every case so far, it's been second hand. In two years of active mailing list participation, I've…
> the smartest web hackers I know universally regard web2py as a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development Would you care to elaborate on that? Have any of these smart web hackers used web2py for real…
Well, according to InfoWorld, web2py is the best Python framework (http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/pillars-p...). It also won a 2011 Bossie Award for open source development software…
> try modeling a school, for example, with the relationships between teachers, students, parents, and classes. The DAL can be used to model any set of tables and relationships that can be created in an RDBMS, so…
Great. Thanks.
It would be interesting to see how you tried it in the DAL and the alternative that you found easier in SQLAlchemy. Can you show an example?
No, the 1.0 vs. .08 is for the entire eight year period depicted, during most of which Node.js didn't even exist. What's relevant is the trend and how they compare right now -- RoR is going down, Node is going up, and…