web.py was viewed as a big joke, because it was quite crude. Django has merged the magic-removal branch a long time ago, pre 1.0 and since the newforms branch

web.py was viewed as a big joke, because it was quite crude. Django has merged the magic-removal branch a long time ago, pre 1.0 and since the newforms branch (also merged aeons ago) it can generate forms and validation. The template language is limited by choice which might or not be a good thing. Personally I think the idea is good, just the execution is inferior to Jinja2. If you don't like it, you can replace it, that's what loosely coupled means. aaronsw things loosely coupled means it is a library. It is not, it has stayed a framework and that hasn't changed since 2005.