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Django: Python's Rapid Web Development Framework

Posted by timothy on from the it's-like-rails-on-steroids dept.

ucahg writes "Simon Willison has a post on his blog introducing Django, a rapid web development framework he and his colleagues are releasing into the wild. Hailed as Python's own version of a Rails framework, Django looks very promising. I'll be keeping a close eye on it as it gets more and more support..."

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  1. *shakes head* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay, great.

    Now when people talk about Rails you can say "ha ha, I'm better, I use DJANGO!" Or Subway, Maypole, Catalyst, Cake, or Trax, or whatever.

    I've tried about half of those and none are *quite* as smooth as Rails. Anything in Perl or PHP is right out. Perl can do everything Ruby can, but with syntax that makes you want to poke your eyes out. PHP is a joke and can be dismissed without further discussion. Python is more verbose than Ruby, doesn't allow the same metaprogramming (closed classes! no anonymous functions!), doesn't allow you to use Python in the HTML templates, because Python is white-space dependent (okay, some people disagree about that last one, but I personally think the same language should be used in the templates).

    Is Rails perfect? Hells to the no, Ruby is about as fast as a constipated 80-year old, and doesn't support Unicode, but if you want to talk ease of programming, Ruby is at the top IMO. Except maybe for maybe lisp or smalltalk but Ruby is a lot more pragmatic.

    I don't mind people reinventing the wheel over and over again but whenever you see people saying "Language X's answer to Rails" all the time, you gotta be thinking to yourself, wow, maybe I should try Rails FIRST and then try the knock-offs. Don't be afraid of Ruby!