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0 pointsbityard4y ago0 comments

I must be in the minority, I have tried to "learn Django" on more than one occasion and gave up every time after struggling with how hilariously over-engineered it is.

My best guess is that Django must be great for writing big important relational-database-backed apps, or rolling your own CMS, or something else people get a paid a lot of money to do. But personally, for my small projects I get more mileage out of starting with a micro-framework and just choosing and bolting on the bits I need.

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Beltiras4y ago

That's exactly the case. My career has been mostly making CMS systems using Django. The neat thing is that you have this front-end batteries-included framework with a gargantuan ecosystem of system tools bolted on it's back end (Python). Django is not a web page tool. It's a tool to build large-scale web systems.

thijsvandien4y ago

I'm totally with you. Whenever I tried to build anything with Django, I soon went back to Tornado for its glorious simplicity. Being able to quickly see how something is implemented is worth much more to me than any magic I mostly end up fighting. Django just has too much going on with everything being somehow connected to everything else (which is sort of the point). I might agree it's well-engineered, but an example of easy to read code...?

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