Mass Transit: How Python Wins on the Web | Linux Today

Mass Transit: How Python Wins on the Web

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 10, 2006

“Recently, it seems like everyone’s been focused upon creating
The One Framework–the Ruby on Rails of Python. In fact, I’m almost
as guilty as everyone else. We have failed in this regard, and we
will continue to fail. We’ve been struggling to find the best
practices and combination of tools to create Joe User’s average
database-backed dynamic web site and application, and not only
can’t we agree on how to do it, no actual end-users care when
polished solutions like Rails and ASP.NET are in town. Not only
that, by many accounts Ruby seems to be overtaking Python in its
rate of growth. Personally, I’d rather write Python…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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