I welcome any effort that aims to improve performance and the python Web ecosystem. From the code in the tutorials Falcon feels a little un-pythonic. This is not a criticism. But a comparison from my experience with other python frameworks (mainly django and flask). It is unfair to compare mature frameworks with a new one. Though this one feels a bit java-ish. Good? Bad? To me that's good. It's stepping out of the comfort zone a bit. Rather than read purely like the idioms of the language, it seems to aim to read like the process it defines. Something that other frameworks abstract down their own idioms.