I know people here won't like me saying this, but I recommend looking at Django. If you have real heavy lifting on ORM, it's not as good, but for 98% of the time Django is easier to develop in than Pylons.
Cheers, Tom Longson (nym) ------------------------------ http://tomlongson.com On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM, DavidG<dgel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmmmm. Anyone? > > On Jul 14, 11:55 am, DavidG <dgel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am in the midst of developing a "fairly simple" application site, >> but where traffic in the real world might be in the "moderate" range >> (not low, but not a mega site). >> >> I have been using python for years, and developed several successful >> low-traffic sites with it, using various python web tools from my own, >> to myghty, mod_python, pylons...I certainly enjoy the programming >> aspect of python, but when you want to get a site up and reliably >> running and scaled (and find people to maintain it), perhaps other >> factors besides the "language" are more important. >> >> Question: is pylons ready for prime time? If one were to develop a >> moderate-volume, solid site, is python with pylons the "best" thing to >> use? How would a pylons site stack up against sites made with php, >> rails, java? (btw, I anticipate deploying using Apache and the paste >> server via reverse-proxy). >> >> Here are things to consider: >> >> 1. ease/speed of programming >> 2. ease of testing >> 3. scalability >> 4. reliability >> 5. maintainability >> 6. flexibility >> 7. availability of good libraries >> >> I realize these questions have been asked before, but having my >> initial "alpha" nearly finished in pylons, doubts are setting in as to >> how deployable and scalable in the *real world* this system might be. >> I know that *a lot* of sites (especially large ones) use php (which, >> as a language, I am less then crazy about). And various java >> frameworks (but java is so much work!). And rails? Well, there seems >> to be a bit of a controversy as to its performance, flexibility and >> scalability. >> >> Interested in any thoughts folks might have. Thanks. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
