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web2py deserves a place on the list. I've found it to be more productive than django.

that project's choice of name, web2py, drives me apeshit. i much preferred it when it was called gluon.

web2py both (a) sounds way way too much like web.py, which predated it, and (b) it sounds like it's a successor to it -- which it is not, and (c) sounds like it's a conversion tool of some kind (following the whole "foo2bar" pattern in program naming).

Whereas 'gluon': some small thing which binds the universe together. And it has personality!

Yeah, I also prefer gluon. It had to be changed due to a copyright issue from what I gather. That said, I could give a hoot what a framework is named if I get work done quickly with it :)

It's in the github repo.

that example needs to be cleaned up - it includes databases, error tickets, sessions, etc, which makes it look more complicated than the others.

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