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I think its explicitness is hugely wonderful for maintenance I find all the magic really off-putting in Flask…

• abhishekjha 8y ago
  I thought what the parent comment meant was that there's little to no magic in Flask compared to some macro-framework like Django/Spring. Can you get any more explicit than Flask and still be called a framework, without hitting the socket levels?
  • aserafini 8y ago
    There's a bit of magic in Flask - the global object is an example.
    • mianos 8y ago
      This one trips up every podcast host and blogger. It is not a global object, it just pretends to be with some wrapper magic. Like an attribute method it is not a simple variable.
      • jononor 8y ago
        Which is even more magic... I don't get why the request and context isn't just passed as parameters. Explicit is better than implicit!
        • cabalamat 8y ago
          > Explicit is better than implicit! Only if you want DRY to mean "Do repeat yourself".
        • aserafini 8y ago
          Agree: passing the request with the full context as parameters to the handler function seems like a more explicit approach.
      • Macha 8y ago
        Which is hardly unique to flask. A scoped bean in Spring is the same concept, if expressed in a much more verbose manner.
  • oneweekwonder 8y ago
    Well flask did evolve of Werkzeug a utility wrapper around wsgi, in response to bottlepy. I also find a lot of the "magic" is found in flask extensions.