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Re:Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components by mhd on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:36PM (#13980430)
I remember when that wave hit the Ruby/Python space, with things like Pyramid/Pylons. These days that seems to have gone the way of the dodo, with the big monoliths still being around and then some minimal HTTP decorators like Sinatra/Flask/Node. Problem is that the middle ground would require a level of modularity that we still haven't reached, despite all the talk of "software ICs" that came around with early OOP.

I predict that's how we're going to end up in a few years again. Some big monoliths (whatever react is morphing into currently, plus Angular and as the world is a cruel mistress, ExtJS), plus a plethora of DOM wrappers and view libraries.

And 72 build systems.

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Re:Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components by ergo14 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:32AM (#13984367)
You know that pyramid powers some of the most important infrastructure for python? Like new version of PYPI (https://pypi.org/)? And lots of big organizations use it - like Mozilla or NASA, sites like Reddit still use pylons.

IF you think it went the way of the dodo, I'd suggest doing a bit of better research before predicting the future :D Because IMO you are seriously off here.

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Re:Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components by mhd on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:29AM (#13984574)
I'm talking about the trend of build-your-own frameworks, not the software itself. Heck, there are enough sites out there still using Zope, MASON and Aolserver.
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Re:Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components by ergo14 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @06:37AM (#13984851)
Pyramid is feature complete as a framework in my opinion - with defaults requires less thinking vs. lets say flask - the resulting applications will be more elegant and better organized (partly because it doesn't use globals eveywhere). The glue is quite good nowdays.
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