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Sorry, wait a second. You're comparing a feature built in to the core of django to something brand new that has a support team of one person and accusing the other guy of trolling?

I'm sure your code is fine, but you can't possibly argue that it is on par with a major component of a major framework and be taken seriously.

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alembic and sqlalchemy are not only on par with django's tools, they are generally superior. This isn't just my opinion, here's Alex Gaynor, Django core committer, saying the same thing:

https://speakerdeck.com/u/alex/p/why-i-hate-the-django-orm

Yet the developmental resources SQLAlchemy and Alembic are a tiny fraction of what Django has. It's the tremendous gravitational pull of Django and the habits of its community writing things hardcoded to Django that suck the life out of other projects in the Python community.

You misread him. He's saying that it's unfair to compare alembic, written solely by him, to something built into Django and debugged by lots of people.

Which is fair enough IMO, but it's not really convincing me that Flask is a better way to go.

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