Yep, forms (and presently, Tastypie) are the biggest hassle for me as well. Digging through the internals of CBVs in order to figure out annoying little mixin-r

Yep, forms (and presently, Tastypie) are the biggest hassle for me as well. Digging through the internals of CBVs in order to figure out annoying little mixin-related quirks probably comes second. Even in spite of all that, it's still the nicest (and by far the most well-documented) framework I've used. If I had to pick one complaint, I'd say the "define fields as class-variables" for forms and models is a bit too magical, and picking through the metaclass implementation to understand exactly what things happen when can be a pain, and I'm not 100% sold that 'reduced boilerplate' is a good enough reason for it (there may be other good reasons. I'm just whining :)).