Re: [web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-22 Thread Ron Chatterjee
youtube uses python. I believe the framework they used is Pyramid but I could be wrong. On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 2:42:57 PM UTC-4, joeg816 wrote: > > I agree 100%. The "powered by" part of the site has a bunch of sites of > questionable quality and many of them are dead. If this was

Re: [web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-22 Thread joeg816
I agree 100%. The "powered by" part of the site has a bunch of sites of questionable quality and many of them are dead. If this was better maintained and showcased some of the best examples, it would go a long way in giving people like me more confidence in using it for larger projects.

Re: [web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-22 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-07-2016 15:53, joeg816 wrote: > Are there any marquee sites that are using it? When Rails was hot, they had a > few big names. Same with PHP, etc. > > I like what I have seen of web2py but I am scared off since a lot of the info I > find

Re: [web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-22 Thread Alex
Realistically no one of us will ever build a website with as much traffic as youtube. If you have that much traffic you wouldn't use an interpreted language like Python. But for 99,99% of all website this doesn't matter anyways. The bottlenecks are usually I/O and the database. I have a public

Re: [web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-20 Thread Ron Chatterjee
Part of the problem may be not any highly popular site ever used the framework. So, its capabilities are somewhat untested. If youtube for example used w2p framework, no one will question its performance. Just some thoughts... On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 11:48:48 AM UTC-4, Richard wrote:

Re: [web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-20 Thread Richard Vézina
web2py is really good framework and you won't find any other with a learning curve as smooth as that... There is not seems that many major web site build over web2py, though I know for sure that there is many data centric app lying around in LAN of multiples business. Forces of web2py are : It

[web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-20 Thread Carlos Zenteno
It is not a "professional" product but check Sahara Eden. It is based in web2py, it has a framework S3 built on top of web2py and it is used in critical disaster operation when the app is put to the test at its maximum performance... I wonder if I should use Linux, it is really old and won

[web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-20 Thread Carlos Zenteno
It is not a "professional" product but check Sahara Eden. It is based in web2py, it has a framework S3 built on top of web2py and it is used in critical disaster operation when the app is put to the test at its maximum performance... I wonder if I should use Linux, it is really old and won

[web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-19 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
If popularity is a factor one should use PHP. web2py is very actively maintained thanks to Niphlod, Paolo, Anthony, Richard, Leonel, Michele, and many others. We have an excellent team. You will find old articles because web2py exists since 2007 and it is always backward compatible so those

[web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-19 Thread Niphlod
nope, I don't. except for public contributions you can see on github, I did consult once. Then I just maintain several in-house apps for my current employeer, which is mostly where redis, mssql, AD and scheduler new features have been battle-tested before being released to the public That

[web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-19 Thread Dave S
On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 7:53:49 AM UTC-7, joeg816 wrote: > > Are there any marquee sites that are using it? When Rails was hot, they > had a few big names. Same with PHP, etc. > I am not sure about "marquee", but Niphlod and Massimo seem to have several important accounts. A couple

[web2py] Re: How active and 'professional' is web2py?

2016-07-19 Thread joeg816
Are there any marquee sites that are using it? When Rails was hot, they had a few big names. Same with PHP, etc. I like what I have seen of web2py but I am scared off since a lot of the info I find online is several years old. I am sure it works fine but to stay employed in this field, you