Folks, it's not like the old days where there were just a couple of web frameworks for building applications with Python.

These days, there are so many web frameworks to choose from.

One of those is the Masonite web framework created by Joseph Mancusio.

Joseph is here today to tell us all about Masonite, what makes it special, its core value proposition for web developers, and much more.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 233 recorded September 11, 2019.

Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy. Keep up with a show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.ffm and follow the show on Twitter via at Talk Python. Joe, welcome to Talk Python to me. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Yeah,

it's great to have you here. I'm really excited to talk about Masonite and sort of do a quick

survey and dive into these modern web frameworks. That's going to be a lot of fun. I think

a thousand flowers are blooming. These days

on the Python web framework world, we've had some stalwart web frameworks, primarily flask and

Django, but Pyramid and before than some others like turbogears and whatnot. But those all had

been around for a really long time and slowly growing or,

you know, really slowly maturing. And I feel just like every month there's a new interesting

framework. Yeah, yeah. I think that's exactly right. And when I started Mason, I thought I was

doing really, really good. And then I guess it's because I got into the ecosystem. And then also

I saw like a whole bunch of other frameworks start like blossoming from that. And it's probably because I just wasn't, you know,

in it in the ecosystem more. So I just saw it more. But yeah, it seems like every, every couple

months, there's something new coming up. Yeah, it's really positive, I think, but also creates

some confusion. We'll talk about that in a bit. Before we get to it, though, let's start with your story. How did you get into programming and into Python? I always never

know which story to tell, like the long story of the short story, but the medium story, I guess,

would be that in high school, in ninth grade, I got kicked out of school for a bunch of stuff,

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