I don't mind so much about the LOC of a framework. If there is stuff in there that I don't use and that does not get in the way of me doing things, thats not th

I don't mind so much about the LOC of a framework. If there is stuff in there that I don't use and that does not get in the way of me doing things, thats not that much of a problem. As for Flask not going anywhere - well, all projects go down the drain at some point. Just 10 years ago, the Zend framework was more popular than Django and Flask combined: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=django%20framework,flask%20framework,zend%20framework https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=django%2... Good point about the dependencies of the flask version. I did not write it. If you like to write a pull request which gets rid of the flask-sqlalchemy and replaces it with pure SQL, I would love to see that.