[vptr]

You can't really have crud without "external dependencies" because you need to store state somewhere.

I'd say, figure out your storage layer (sql, mongo, files etc) then pick the right tech. Django and Rails will let you very easily bootstrap simple crud apps with very little code.

If you need CRUD API i'd personally go with Go and some db that i'm familiar with (pg). You can achieve tons with Go without any external deps.

[giancarlostoro]

I'm a little surprised I didn't see more people mention Go honestly. It's kind of easy as a language to pick up, and depending on what you're doing, it might have everything you need in one swoop. Of course I've not done anything too advanced with it yet. Although uAdmin seems to be a Django inspired thing from Go, I'm not sure if it will ever take off or what, but it seems interesting at least to me. The name is kind of terrible though.