>While I'm not disagreeing on the quality of Flask, "x uses y, so y must be stable" is the same kind of argument as "Facebook runs on PHP, so PHP must be blazing fast."
No, the argument is the same: "Facebook runs on PHP, so PHP must be stable".
Which makes sense. A base technology that holds up with half a billion users, I would call production ready.
As for fast, if you look at the most comprehensive benchmarks, PHP is more or less on par with Ruby/Python for raw speed of simple page serving, but when multiple DB connections are used in a page (which is the most common case for dynamic pages), it leaps far ahead, and reaches Servlet and Go levels of reqs/sec.
No, the argument is the same: "Facebook runs on PHP, so PHP must be stable".
Which makes sense. A base technology that holds up with half a billion users, I would call production ready.
As for fast, if you look at the most comprehensive benchmarks, PHP is more or less on par with Ruby/Python for raw speed of simple page serving, but when multiple DB connections are used in a page (which is the most common case for dynamic pages), it leaps far ahead, and reaches Servlet and Go levels of reqs/sec.