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> the two most influential frameworks (Rails and Sinatra) You admit that you're a Ruby developer, so you must see that this is slightly blinkered. Influential on what? There's not much Rails brought to the table which was entirely unique, it was just a very good MVC framework in a pleasant language that came along at the right time. And lets not forget that development on Django (which was also very influential), beg…
> You admit that you're a Ruby developer, so you must see that this is slightly blinkered. Influential on what? On frameworks in other languages, both in terms of design/motivation and expectations; one indication of this is the frequency of phrases like "sinatra style framework" or "rails style framework" to either (a) describe an existing web framework for a different langauge, or (b) describe what someone is looki…
I've never heard "Sinatra style". In fact, when someone first mentioned Sinatra to me, they explained it as "like a web.py style microframework, for Ruby". This was a conversation between two Python developers though, so it makes sense we'd be more familiar with the Python ecosystem. But that's as much a Python-centric bias as your original comment seemed Ruby-centric bias.
Incidentally, I don't think Flask has all that much in common with Sinatra.