Rapidly Developing Rapid Application Development Frameworks

No sooner had my Turbogears post hit the web than I found that the project's maintainer, Kevin, laid out some intentions as they march towards version 1.0. Specifically, they're going to be implementing some of the features I mentioned (including a CRUD framework for form generation). In addition, the CatWalk model browser was added to the project. Originally written with the TurboGears stack, CatWalk was integrated as part of the project itself. Who knew!? CatWalk makes a great addition to an already great web development stack.

In addition to identity management and CRUD, the project definitely has some high hopes for their 1.0 release; and given the current pace of development, I think they're going to hit their goals right on the mark. In addition, the sub-projects that comprise TurboGears are under active development as well (CherryPy just had their 2.1 release, and Mochikit hit version 1.0). This, among other factors, makes TurboGears a definite project to watch. It's user-base is growing leaps and bounds, and I think there is definitely a lot of potential for the project as a whole. If this level of activity can be maintained throughout the development of the project, I think we'll definitely see a whole mess of features integrated and added as the project progresses through it's infancy into "mature" stages.