D For A Web Developer

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 18:04 +0000, via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> I've looked closely at Django. I find it more convenient to use 
> smaller independent libraries inspired by Django than using the 
> framework itself.

If you have a "full stack" solution to a problem then Django does work
quite well, however most of my use is far from "full stack" so Flask,
Bottle, Twisted and Tornado are my "go to" (*) Python frameworks

> The problem with frameworks that are supposed to support a plugin 
> architecture is that they become complex and not very 
> transparent. That makes debugging harder, and you need to debug 
> because plugins don't always integrate well with each other. So 
> at the end of the day you spend time struggling with debugging 
> complex mechanics that you only need to support plugins. With a 
> more nimble environment you spend less time debugging (or trying 
> to figure out what a plugin actually does) and more time coding 
> stuff that fits the requirements.

For "lightweight" problems, "full stack" frameworks are a disaster.
Hence the "lightweight" frameworks. Flask + SQLAlchemy is a very popular
combination. I'm not sure what the D equivalent is but I guess it is
vibe.d + ???.

[…]
> Well, I only know Go from Google App Engine. Browse the 
> hello-world tutorial and you'll see that the Python version is 
> more legible (?):

I treat GAE as an anti-pattern.



(*) Are we allowed to have gotos any more since Dijkstra's letter?

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