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Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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spookylukey wrote: post #66
gtaylor wrote: post #59

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I'd be pretty miffed if they did this. You need only look at the comments contrib to see an example of something that was OK'ish when it was incorporated, but has languished since then. Now I question the need to even have it in contrib. We don't have to bake components in for them to be excellent. rest-framework in particular moves ridiculously fast, and being separate from Django lets them do that. Also, if in the…

The 'comments' app has now been deprecated and will be finally removed from contrib in 1.8

Good catch, I had no idea. Glad to see this!

Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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acjohnson55 wrote: post #63
gtaylor wrote: post #58

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> I guess what I'm trying to ask is, what is holding Django back? Why do you think it's being held back? I'm just not seeing the barriers in using newer tech. We stay pretty cutting edge, and haven't had any issues doing so with Django.

Because you don't hear about it growing in popularity or being used in the hot new stuff on HN.

I've seen it growing in popularity firsthand. The projects I'm involved with have seen large increases in contributors, mailing list activity, traffic on Github, downloads on PyPi over the last four or five years. PyAtl and some of the other local groups with Djangonauts in them have grown sharply over the last two years (in the Atlanta area). People from other backgrounds are more likely than ever to at least have an idea about what Django is (whereas when I was starting back in 2006 people would just stare at you).

I like playing with Go and the other newer/trendy stuff, but the thing I like about Django is that I can just sit down and get work done fast. It's not sexy, it's not clever, it's not magical, but I don't want it to be any of those things.

As a side effect of this, a huge percentage of the population is too busy getting stuff done with Django to blog and interact, aside from asking questions and getting advice. You know, like Instagram, Pinterest, NASA, National Geographic, Disqus, Mozilla, The Onion, PBS, and many more.

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