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This is the danger with high level frameworks, everything is abstracted away, and with a dynamic language like python the black magic can go very deep. If you'
by nickserv 7y ago
This is the danger with high level frameworks, everything is abstracted away, and with a dynamic language like python the black magic can go very deep.
If you've ever taken a look at something like Flask or Cherrypi, the difference is very apparent.
That said, I've been doing some Rails lately, after years of Django, and I'm finding the experience to be worse from a readability point of view. Metaprogramming everywhere, modifications of language constructs ... It gets very confusing very quickly. Could be simply a lack of experience of course.
In parallel, I've also been using Go and the experience could not be any different. So much easier to understand what is going on, but so much boilerplate code!
It doesn't look like it's possible to have both ease of use and explicitness...
- michaelcampbell 7y agoThanks; I've glanced at Flask and it makes a lot more sense to me, but this is a project of immense size and age, and not under my control, so I just have to live with it. Overabstraction for the sake of it seems to be Django's mantra. Then there's Django Rest Framework, and the 3-4 different filtering mechanisms. It's really a nuisance.