i dont know why nobody ever talks about pyjs.org. to me it takes the best ideas of gwt, simplifies it, and then lets you use python instead of java. sure its a little bleeding edge, and not being heavily developed (because it already works good enough?), but who cares. i dont need the worlds fanciest framework with new features every five minutes. i dont need pythons metaclasses for browser apps. i just need simple, bare bones widgets that wrap html and to be able to write python. javascript is fine, but python is just so much more productive. syntactic sugar counts. readability counts. and python will never run native in the browser so we all need to move on.

pyjs works great now, and makes one highly productive. it just needs a bigger community of users (and developers?). so anyone asking the types of questions raised here should try it. then you can bash it on hn, right? :)