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0 pointsboxed2y ago0 comments

I think it's a bad idea to judge tech based on popularity. It just becomes a game of high school fashion drama, instead of getting work done.

Also, I think the comparison is unfair due to the sheer age of DRF. Check out this graph: https://star-history.com/#encode/django-rest-framework&vital... Then click the "align timelines" and you see that ninja is more popular than DRF was at the same age.

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ghnws2y ago

>I think it's a bad idea to judge tech based on popularity. It just becomes a game of high school fashion drama, instead of getting work done. I disagree. If one tool is way less popular, you risk it being discontinued. You do not want to start maintaining a web framework on top of your application nor do you want to rewrite your entire app.

boxedOP2y ago

People worry too much about that stuff. You can use non-maintained software for decades just fine. But I see people all the time freak out because there wasn't a release in the last week or whatever.

Also, most business fail way before their chosen framework stops being maintained. In fact, most businesses fail before they even got their first customer, let alone getting to break even. We need to keep some perspective here.

7bit2y ago

You assume that popular high school drama OSS is not productive and you don't get work done with it. Your assumption and the point you are making are incorrect.

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