[bryanlarsen]

What are the alternatives?

- actively developed framework -> upgrade fun

- not actively developed framework -> security issues, trouble hiring devs, missing features, et cetera

- no framework, (also known as roll your own) -> much harder for new team to come up to speed on the code base

I contend that the first is the best of the bad choices.

[dasil003]

I agree, if you're not capable of ongoing maintenance then you are doomed with all custom software. However I expect a PHP or Java framework to generally require less maintenance.

[tim333]

web2py is quite good. Still runs stuff from many years ago, almost no security issues, does a lot out of the box. Bit of a job to make it work with websockets I'll give you.