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Thats a very good question! I am a full stack developer and have no problems writing big applications in python, javascript, html, css and juggling multiple frameworks at once. Also i am very experienced with async code and asyncio. But at work i am the only one with this skill set. The most of the other developers only have application specific domain knowledge and can write python code.

One of our biggest internal projects at work is our web based accounting system. If there is a bug that is not a technical issue but an accounting issue, i cant do anything (i have no clue about accounting). If the bug touches multiple layers of the software (backend and frontend) our application developers are sometimes busy for days. Thats slows down development and is expensive.

With Lona, and the Lona widgets i created for our accounting system, i can give them a very simple, abstract and pythonic API for common tasks like "show an table and then update it", "show a progressbar with an abort button" or "show a popup with 3 buttons". The code is more readable for everyone involved, and the application developers can now solve most of their problems on their own.

Performance: Yes you are right, you have to sacrifice performance for this approach to web, but performance is in this kind of applications no problem. CPU time is cheap these days, developer time is expensive. We are a small team.




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