[richardolsson]

I've recently started using Falcon, and also contributed some code to it (e.g. an even faster router which generates and compiles python code representing the URI tree).

The main benefit for me, and the reason why I chose Falcon over other frameworks, is that Falcon is entirely designed around the task of creating REST APIs. You wouldn't use it to create a blog or news site or whatever. You would perhaps use it to create an API backend for any of those though.

This makes it light-weight, and also opens the possibility for some design decisions that would not work in a more general purpose type of framework.

In that regard, Falcon is definitely more opinionated than other frameworks (it's opinion being that you should build REST APIs), but in others, such as choice of response encoder, storage et c, it's not.