The fad is over. I'm sick of Node.js...

...but I don't want to go  back to LAMP. I need to explore further. I've already tried Django and I like it even less than Node.js because it's too fucking bloated. I don't like Node.js because I don't want to build everything with freaking JS and callbacks.

So what's next? What's a sane alternative that is lightweight, simple in design and usage, yes fairly well supported and well documented?

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CherryPy is a lightweight OO framework for Python.
Flask is pretty hot stuff, it's a templating micro framework for Python.
Tornado is one framework as well.
Then there's of course Meteor that's pretty hot stuff now, a JS + MongoDB framework that lets you deploy in matter of minutes.