alt Hacker NewsThis isn't proposing a standard, it's a new framework which takes inspiration from the other mentioned projects, while choosing a different set of trade-offs. This is just what it looks like when people try new stuff, and I don't think the snark of the comic is appropriate.
if frameworks are specifications, then a new framework is definitionally a new standard. it’s not an ISO or ANSI standard. but the point of the comic is, there are 10 web frameworks, we need one to be the best of all of them! there are 11 frameworks.