I use both rails and django, and my impression is that although both frameworks were released at roughly the same time, they are both at very different points of the hype curve, with rails pulling out of the Trough of Disillusionment, and django rising to peak hype.
Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
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Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#32Incidentally, these answers are mostly not from YC-funded startups, if that's what you meant to ask about.
Do you have the stats for YC-funded companies? It'd be a nice leading indicator and if it means that more people pick up the languages/frameworks they use, that's a win/win for everyone.
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#33PHP (cleverly hidden within the CodeIgniter framework).
EDIT: Doh! It's too late at night, and I didn't catch what you meant in the title. My startup is bootstrapped, not YC-funded.
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#34PHP is a language, not a web framework. Perhaps you meant CakePHP, the most common web framework for PHP?
Nope. As I've mentioned previously, PHP is a templating engine gone berserk. The language it's written in is C.
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#35Pylons
Pylons has served us pretty well in so far as it seems a more modular approach vs. django. Pylons encourages you to tweak the framework itself as you see fit. In our case, we incorporate a bunch of custom framework code. I'm sure you could do this with django, but it just feels better with a minimal, modular framework vs. something that is on the monolithic side of things.
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#36Pylons
Pylons has served us pretty well in so far as it seems a more modular approach vs. django. Pylons encourages you to tweak the framework itself as you see fit. In our case, we incorporate a bunch of custom framework code. I'm sure you could do this with django, but it just feels better with a minimal, modular framework vs. something that is on the monolithic side of things.
Yes i agree, thats why when we were choosing our framework we ended up deciding between cherrypy and pylons ... i think turbogears changed from cherrypy to pylons as its core web framework module.
I think if needed you could change the framework code with django also but it just seems very large where as pylons or cherrypy is very minimilistic.
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#37I'm starting to fool around a bit with Erlang for a side project... other than that, exclusively Rails at this point. I am not a 'YC Startup' though.
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#38Rails + Flex
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#39At the risk of being ridiculed because it's not trendy: C#, ASP.Net Web Forns and SQL Server 2008.
It's all down to the tools for me.
Re: Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#40kohana, from my 3 weeks epxeriences, its pretty lightweight and provide most of the features that django provide.