Django Framework Debate
The cluster focuses on opinions about Django's strengths, weaknesses, and evolution as a Python web framework, with frequent comparisons to Rails, Laravel, Flask, and others. Users share personal experiences, criticisms of its maturity and flexibility, and defenses of its productivity.
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"If you're not using Django, you're probably just rebuilding it poorly."
Could you elaborate on why you dislike Django? Would be great to hear from someone with extensive Python experience.
What are some things you don’t like about Django?
What makes you think Django is terrible
Same opinion. Django is marvelous for getting stuff done.
Doctrine sucks too. Glad I'm using Django.
Django is similar but done better IMO.
What is missing from Django that you feel it didn’t evolve much?
Think Rails is better than Django?
I appreciate this effort and am surprised by the negative sentiment. I evaluated the big 3 frameworks (Laravel, Django, and Rails) last year and Django felt like the worst of the lot.I really wanted to like Django more since I use python at $dayjob, but it seemed so far behind Laravel and Rails terms of DX and features. Also the ecosystem seemed fragmented and a lot of packages looked stale.For example, I remember having to piece together a static files pipeline for Django with whit