I think it's amazing that Django and Rails are rated higher than PHP (at least, they are at the time I'm writing this).
This really exposes how different this crowd is from the mainstream.
Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
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#42I'm surprised by Django's popularity.
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#43I'm surprised by Django's popularity.
In that I knew it was gaining ground - but it's ahead of Rails in the poll right now. Didn't realize how far it has come.
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#44The thing about Django is Python, really. Ruby looks nice, but Python apps get the benefit of all the non-Django applications it's been put to: fast numerics through Numpy and Scipy, PIL, lxml, NLTK, Twisted, etc etc etc.
Of course, you could argue that Perl has even richer libraries, so...
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#45I'm surprised by Django's popularity.
I wonder if the results would have been different if the title had led with the word Rails instead of Django. I certainly clicked the link because my lizard brain saw Django and before I knew it here I was.
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#46ASP .NET MVC!
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#47I think it's amazing that Django and Rails are rated higher than PHP (at least, they are at the time I'm writing this). This really exposes how different this crowd is from the mainstream.
Yes and no.
There are a lot of companies which simply never talk about what they use internally; as such, it's really hard to get an accurate picture of what's really in use, because the only glimpses we get are the (fairly rare) places which choose to be open about what they're doing.
Based on that, and on interesting tidbits picked up from talking to people in the trenches and paying attention to little clues (interesting addresses showing up on mailing lists or IRC, peculiar code quirks, etc.), I suspect that if everybody laid their cards on the table the results would be surprising to people who think they know what the "mainstream" is using (and not just in the "lots of people using Rails/Django sense -- there are many more exotic things out there).
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#48I think it's amazing that Django and Rails are rated higher than PHP (at least, they are at the time I'm writing this). This really exposes how different this crowd is from the mainstream.
Yes and no. There are a lot of companies which simply never talk about what they use internally; as such, it's really hard to get an accurate picture of what's really in use, because the only glimpses we get are the (fairly rare) places which choose to be open about what they're doing. Based on that, and on interesting tidbits picked up from talking to people in the trenches and paying attention to little clues (inte…
I'm sure you'll acknowledge that neither Rails nor Django is universially more used than PHP is. A better estimate is that PHP is about 100 times more widely used. The discrepancy between that and the results of this poll is so big I can't think of a word in the english language to describe it.
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#49Django seems to be getting momentum and yet there aren't(afaik) hosting companies dedicated exclusively for it.
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#50HeavyMetal http://getheavy.info/ ;)
docs for this are non existent or I can't find anything more than that poor wiki.