"Let’s face it: web development sucks.
Not all the time — in fact, there are an increasing number of great, dare we say fun, tools out there. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django take a lot of the pain out of web development, and JavaScript libraries like JQuery or Dojo make creating slick user interfaces easier.
But even with the fantastic tools we have, there are still plenty of mundane tasks that, well, suck. In fact, most advancements in web development have come from a very basic developer problem: how can I make this suck less?
That’s the question Django developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss recently set out to answer at a Python Conference in Argentina"

via http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Do_Frameworks_Have_a_Place_in_Web_Development_s_Future_