The link-aggregator part of the fediverse has grown, with the launch of PieFed’s beta test. PieFed joins platforms like Lemmy and Kbin who all have the ability to share links, and comment and vote on them. PieFed focuses on making the platform easy to manage, maintain and develop for, and uses Python. Developer Rimu is […]
  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have honestly not found flask + (probably) sqlalchemy to be the easiest thing out there. Just like mailinglists: simple doesn’t mean easy. Many people conflate the two.

    • Rimu@piefed.social
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      10 months ago

      One of the good/bad things about Flask is it’s quite a small framework which lets the developer do whatever they want (yay!) so it’s easy to make an unholy mess (boo!). I hope that I’ve stayed on the rails with PieFed.

      It’s a bit sad what has happened in the most recent version of SQLAlchemy - they made it all weird and difficult. PieFed uses an older version which I find very intuitive and simple.