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"a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development" - crikey!

can you explain what i've been doing wrong, please?



I've never encountered those flamewars before (I don't know web2py), but I searched a bit, here is the web2py dev discussing one particular criticism:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/dmN54cpMuXo/discuss...

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/GQWCsNzwP28/discuss...

Armin Ronacher's take: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/2/1/exec-in-python/


Ta - sadly, I'm all too familiar with it.

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.

Going back to the original discussions about this, and discounting the unnecessarily intemperate language used, it seems to boil down to web2py's conscious design decisions being discounted as "Pythonic heresy" - fair enough if that is your PoV, but that's a long way from "a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development".


> 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 never seen any actual users complain about these problems. They are hypothetical concerns that simply do not arise in real world usage.




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