[davidhowlett]

Flask was originally an April fools joke with what the author thought was a silly design. It is now widely used, including in production systems at my company.

http://mitsuhiko.pocoo.org/flask-pycon-2011.pdf

[avery42]

In case anyone wants a video of the original talk: https://archive.org/details/pyvideo_440___opening-the-flask

[newswasboring]

Lol this isn't grim at all. As far as I understand, they came up with a pretty good architecture as a joke.