the way i've always looked at it is that django was python's answer to RoR, and it was great at the time, but it doesn't embrace decorators or context locals--t

the way i've always looked at it is that django was python's answer to RoR, and it was great at the time, but it doesn't embrace decorators or context locals--two things which make the flask API beautiful. and, when you compare sqlalchemy to django's ORM -- Sqlalchemy is more powerful. i can't give specific reasons why. I think zzzeek is just insanely focused and that beat out design by committee. (mitsuhiko too incidentally). maybe that's wrong, just my intuition. sqlalchemy is probably the best orm in _any_ language. there's a huge django community that would disagree, but you don't see concrete reasons why django is better than flask, but flask is better than django for the simple reasons i mention. they're not different meant for large and small apps. everything django can do flask can do better, cleaner, simpler.