The Perfect Web Framework

23 June, 2009. It was a Tuesday.

I’ve been paid professionally to work with or have messed around with many web frameworks. To name most of them:

Perl/CGI
RoR
a tiny bit of Django
ASP.NET WebForms
ASP.NET MVC
FubuMVC
MonoRail
a tiny bit of OpenRasta (sorry Sebastian, I keep failing to find time to dig into this more. I really mean to, I promise!)
Apache Struts
Java JSP
Java Servlets
Java Server Faces
A bunch of other of the myriad of Java web frameworks
PHP
ASP
A bunch more that I can’t remember or aren’t worth mentioning

Each of them offers a little, but at the huge expense of getting in your way a lot of time.

The more and more I use more of them, the more I come to the conclusion that the perfect web framework looks like this:

public string Get(IDictionary<string, string> request)
{
  //TODO: Stuff here
}