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Re:Eighteen months of Django by mikeyouse on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @08:11PM (#5671717)
I disagree somewhat.. I'm a hobbyist at best when it comes to programming. Like I've never actually shipped anything in my life. I recently decided to put an end to that to solve a problem for a family member's business.

They just wanted a simple web form, where the sales people could add notes throughout the day and then automatically email those notes to the owner at the end of the day.

I first tried Django and was quickly overwhelmed.. I switched to Flask and with the help of flask-login, flask-wtforms, and flask-mail, it only took me a long weekend to get it up and running.

Just a personal anecdote, but Flask was much easier for me.

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Re:Eighteen months of Django by obviouslygreen on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @08:55PM (#5671851)
Flask is definitely easier... it also offers far less. Which is fine in some circumstances -- perhaps many -- but the fact that Django has a steeper learning curve is due to the fact that it covers a lot more ground in terms of things many if not most web applications need.

This doesn't make it better, but it also doesn't make it worse.

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