Not to conflate a framework and a language, but there’s something about Django that makes me feel like I’m writing PHP. What is this effect?
Laravel keeps copying Django (I mean it in a good way)
Happy 20th Birthday, Django
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Re: Happy 20th Birthday, Django
#12Fastapi has completely replaced django for me. I do not miss orm at all.
I’ve also switched away from Django (to Litestar), but the ORM is the mean thing I keep missing from Django. SQLAlchemy feels really clunky by comparison
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#13I haven't used Django in many years, but I have fond memories of learning it and building my startup as a Django app.
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#14Many fond memories of Google AppEngine using django on top of their datastore back in the day. 15 years later and DX is still quite similar.
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#15I haven't used Django in many years, but I have fond memories of learning it and building my startup as a Django app.
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#16I know one of the co-creators (Simon W) is quite active on HN :)
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#17That project (a local one to me; was created the next county over in the KC metro) put a lot of food on my table and made a lot of value for my business partners. Happy birthday!
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#18In a very real sense, I have Django to thank for my entire career. As an undergraduate, my first academic job in a research lab had me building websites to promote the research in a lab. Django was brand new, and I was uninterested in petty concerns like stability and security, so I did everything in Django.
Years later (2009), I got to do interesting work in a cutting edge machine learning lab due to the expertise I developed in Django -- I was accepted into the lab specifically to clean up the mess phd students had made trying to build a complex front end using Django's ORM with physically separate per-user MySQL database servers.
All the things that came after -- being the first full time employee at a machine learning spinout from the lab, getting acquired by a big company and scaling up sensor-driven ML in the real world, quitting to co-found an ML-centered VC fund, starting a (now 10 year old) AI company -- none of it would have happened without Django.
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#20Not to conflate a framework and a language, but there’s something about Django that makes me feel like I’m writing PHP. What is this effect?
Laravel keeps copying Django (I mean it in a good way)
It should copy the query builder, in many ways Laravel is nicer, but Django's query builder is way more powerful with fewer lines of code.