I was wondering if someone from this user group could give a practical and straight response about the future development of this framework and it's ability to be flexible?
The reason I ask is I'm moving into a section of my PhD where I'm going to be building a social network so I can monitor user's online collaborative behaviour and then adapt their environment based on their classified behaviour through unsupervised machine learning. I've chosen python as the language of choice, because I've only played around with it a bit for general programming tasks and have fallen heavily for it, as it is enjoyable to work in. I've spoken on the IRCs and asked a few people and they have shot web2py down quite heavily. If I know the framework which I'm going to use is flexible with a bright future, I can add my extensions to work with it and know that it wont be a dead end. I know there are for and againsts for each framework, and web2py seems pretty lean and clean, but the community (python that is) seem to lash out at this framework when mentioning, which of course makes you spend a lot of time trying to decipher the actual valuable content on why. I know human beens are creatures of habit and hate change, but is that really it? Also, why is there 14 people in #web2py but 149 people #pyramid? Why is a framework which is so known, so unfollowed? ... Sententia
