Comments on: 5 Reasons To Love Django

By: Hire A Developer, Not An Acronym « metajack

Hire A Developer, Not An Acronym « metajack — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:39:09 +0000

[...] A Developer, Not An Acronym 13Jun08 Yesterday I told the story of hiring a Django developer: Python is really easy to learn, and regardless of what you hear, the [...]

By: Bryce Beattie

Bryce Beattie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:54:03 +0000

#34 – Django was like, totally a kickass guitarist.

By: alrex

alrex — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:44:03 +0000

> Django is trivial to extend.

Perhaps easy to extend but not very flexible.
Try changing the ORM layer and let me know how that goes.

I personally believe that WSGI support should be better supported (currently looks like hack) and missing Aggregation support is a big one too. (I have many web apps that require some form of web reports, hence most land up being ugly custom queries.)

If I had those, I wouldn’t need any more real flexibility that other frameworks may provide.

Seems that the WSGI (fix) and Aggregation are planed for 1.0 and 1.1 respectively. Looking forward to that.

By: David Preece

David Preece — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:39:22 +0000

phpimpact: “How come the python community is not promoting this framework the same way Ruby developers are doing with Rails?”

Because they have jobs to do. Stuff to ship. Clients to keep happy. Speaking of which…

By: metajack

metajack — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:03:36 +0000

@SuperJared: At least they now have a plan. While it doesn’t do an immediate release, is does do one at the beginning of July, with regularly scheduled releases to follow until September.

@phpimpact: I suspect the reason for the lack of promotion is that Rails/Ruby people have a dual job of promoting both the framework and the language. In terms of popularity, Ruby is a newcomer (mostly because of Rails). Python was already here and popular. I am glad there is competition, even across languages. It only means those of us who use frameworks will be spoiled for choice and can look forward to many new things.

By: phpimpact

phpimpact — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:57:05 +0000

To be honest, the more I use Rails the more I like Django. Like you said, it provides everything you need by default. Although python doesn’t have great documentation, the language is simple and very powerful. How come the python community is not promoting this framework the same way Ruby developers are doing with Rails?

By: SuperJared

SuperJared — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:23:20 +0000

If you ask me (and for the record you didn’t) the version numbers are ridiculous. 0.95, 0.96 and trunk are all so different I could see them as major revision numbers if not entirely separate versions entirely.

Django’s version numbering and release process confuse many new users. Finally getting to 1.0 will help.

By: web design company

web design company — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:33:36 +0000

#6: Because it was a ridiculous and great western movie with the best soundtrack ever.

By: The Problem With Django « metajack

The Problem With Django « metajack — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:52:35 +0000

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