- 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 programs around the world
- A web framework that's had almost no major security issues over the 10+ years its been around
What exactly would you get in terms of benefits from switching to Ruby? I'm not saying Ruby or Rails are bad tools, I just don't get why someone who already knew Python and Django would switch.
I get that if you run a dev shop it might be a better choice for just cranking out web apps as fast as possible for clients, but if you run an actual startup I don't see that the benefits of saving a couple lines of code would offset the costs of being locked into the ruby ecosystem.
I disagree about this, there's not even a basic user signup flow plugin with page templates that would allow SSO and U2F, it was so when I was looking at it three months ago. With Flask I can use Flask-Security, Flask-Dance and I have user signup, pw resets, SSO. With CSRF protection out-of-box and bunch of other security features are easy to turn on compared to Django. What I did like about Django was the idea and maybe I would've liked Django-Admin if I didn't have to reinvent three wheels out of four.
I don't know a ton about SSO, although I'm more skeptical about building it into Django only because there are many different ways you might want the business logic to work, so to me that suggests using a library for that might be more appropriate than having it built into the framework.
Sorry that these are fairly abstract statements without examples. I need to start tracking them.
You'd get Ruby on Rails.
I don't need to learn a new language I won't use for anything else, I don't need to learn a framework that is not as simple as its proponents describe. I also don't need to learn a new package manager or go digging for gems that do what I need.
If you aren't already invested in ruby, there is very little to gain as a web app developer. It would be a huge waste of time to drop django or flask and learn not only a new framework but also a language that is often described as cumbersome to use.
Ruby on rails might make sense if you already know it, but it makes little sense for anyone else to learn it these days.
