zengyro
Flask is designed under the assumption that you will most likely use third party frameworks for stuff like database abstraction and input validation.
It's kinda neat in that regard, and if you prefer to work that way then more power to you.
But I believe Web2py gets the balance between 'batteries included' and 'find your own damn batteries' right.
It offers a good balance between Django (which i find a little big and unwieldy), and Flask (which I think suffers from the opposite problem).
Ask HN: Founders from Non-IT/Programming Backgrounds
I am curious as to how many web-based startup projects have got off the ground by people whose software development/programming skills were either self-taught or were perhaps spun out of a hobby project.I am never short of ideas, but I would imagine that as a self-taught programmer myself, there must be certain implementation practices that would be obvious to a professional, but not so much to...