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Re: Django 2.2

#41

Post by h1d »

Alex3917 wrote: post #8
amerine wrote: post #2

Nice. Anyone building fun stuff using Django these days?

Django is still by far the best web framework as far as I can tell. Every couple years I check what's out there for GoLang, Rust, Nodejs, and Swift, and it seems like it will be a decade or more before anything else comes even close. Even though a lot of people don't like Django's ORM, at least it does almost everything you would want to do with Postgres. (And if you want more you can always use SqlAlchemy.) Most of…

> a decade or more before anything else comes even close.

Stopped reading at the fanboism.

Re: Django 2.2

#42

Post by bluedino »

The projects/app relationship never 'clicked' with me. I also have a dislike for the awkward 'polls' example in the django tutorial.

That said, I like Django. Of course, I liked Rails better, but maybe that's because it was my 'first' and I never used any of the big php frameworks for a long period of time.

I quit wasting my time with Flask for projects a while ago. It's a really great project and suited for smaller things, but you just end up re-implenting django. I'd rather someone made those decision for me.

Re: Django 2.2

#43

Post by ecmascript »

Scarblac wrote: post #35
ecmascript wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The people behind Django are one of the sharpest set of developers out there. That may be, but it doesn't really matter to me if they put their political views into their code. It can literally be the best framework out there, built by the sharpest minds in the world and I would still use another framework even if it would hurt me economically.

Then you're letting yourself be hurt by your political views. The Django developers try to include the absolutely widest range of people they can. But if that makes people decide to exclude themselves, that's not Django's problem IMO.

Well yes, maybe. Maybe not.

I think this is not about inclusion though, this is about exclusion of people who think like me.

Re: Django 2.2

#44

Post by ecmascript »

chickenfries wrote: post #37
ecmascript wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The people behind Django are one of the sharpest set of developers out there. That may be, but it doesn't really matter to me if they put their political views into their code. It can literally be the best framework out there, built by the sharpest minds in the world and I would still use another framework even if it would hurt me economically.

Do you not use anything from the GNU project because of their politics?

What politics do they enforce on me by using their products?

Re: Django 2.2

#45

Post by mtberatwork »

Alex3917 wrote: post #19
auvi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are missing the elephant in the room: Ruby on Rails.

With Python you get: - The best-governed language in all of software, and the best-governed web framework - A huge ecosystem of libraries for everything from data science to email processing, that are (mostly) easy to read and modify and free from systemic security issues. And pretty much every major company with an API has an official Python library for that API. - The standard language taught at most of the top CS…

Django's documentation is also simply top notch.

Re: Django 2.2

#46

Post by [deleted] »

bluedino wrote: post #42

The projects/app relationship never 'clicked' with me. I also have a dislike for the awkward 'polls' example in the django tutorial. That said, I like Django. Of course, I liked Rails better, but maybe that's because it was my 'first' and I never used any of the big php frameworks for a long period of time. I quit wasting my time with Flask for projects a while ago. It's a really great project and suited for smaller…

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Re: Django 2.2

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Post by rlander »

fredley wrote: post #22

Django/Jupyter/pandas is an ecosystem that's hard to beat. If you're not already using it, check out `django-extensions`. You can use `./manage.py shell_plus --notebook` to launch a Django-friendly Jupyter notebook. From there you can prototype with extreme ease and confidence. I have also built a trivial custom model Manager so I can do stuff like: User.objects.all().to_dataframe("first_name", "last_name", "email")…

You just discovered repl driven development that lisp users have been advocating for years. Check it out in Clojure: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/what-makes-a-good-repl....

Re: Django 2.2

#48

Post by iwebdevfromhome »

Alex3917 wrote: post #8
amerine wrote: post #2

Nice. Anyone building fun stuff using Django these days?

Django is still by far the best web framework as far as I can tell. Every couple years I check what's out there for GoLang, Rust, Nodejs, and Swift, and it seems like it will be a decade or more before anything else comes even close. Even though a lot of people don't like Django's ORM, at least it does almost everything you would want to do with Postgres. (And if you want more you can always use SqlAlchemy.) Most of…

Symfony is a great php framework too

Re: Django 2.2

#49

Post by rattray »

I've been away from Django for a few years, and hope to come back one day.

One thing I'm curious about, coming from well-typed JS codebases using Flow, is the quality of typings in major projects like Django, Pandas, etc. Are their APIs well-typed? Can I get quality types for my models?

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