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After using both Flask and FastAPI extensively I can attest that Flask is the better technology. Flask is extremely stable and has solid organization around them via Pallets. This is a great benefit as they are keeping the ecosystem moving forward and stable.

https://palletsprojects.com/

Versus FastAPI which is lead by a single maintainer which you can search back on HN about opinions on how he's led things.

Flask also has at time of writing only 5 open issues and 6 open PRs, while FastAPI has over 150 PRs open and 40 pages(!) of discussions (which I believe they converted most of their issues to discussions).

Lastly on the technical side, I found Flasks threaded model with a global request context to be really simple to reason about. I'm not totally sold on async Python anymore and encountered odd memory leaks in FastAPI when trying to use it.

[odie5533]

Flask is missing... pydantic, dependency injection, openapi, swagger, real async.

[nop_slide]

https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-pydantic

https://luolingchun.github.io/flask-openapi3/v4.x/

> dependency injection

While nice I never found this to be a critical deciding factor of using a technology.

> real async

If you really want it there is Quart which is real async

https://github.com/pallets/quart

I'm not a huge async fan in python anymore so not it's not a huge issue for me. But there are definitely options for Flask if you want to use async.

[callamdelaney]

Dependency injection in fastapi honestly feels like a horrible afterthought. Flask's g is much easier to reason about, and 99% of projects don't need the 'performance improvements' of async.

[Exoristos]

So nothing of importance.

[nine_k]

Flask is old. It's mature, nothing left to add, little if anything remains to fix because nothing is really broken. OTOH its static typing story is pretty weak, and this is likely unfixable by design. Its use of one-letter global objects also feels a bit weird.

It's the "choose boring technology" poster child, of sorts: get things done reliable, without using any design younger than 15 years ago.