Claude Code is also very good at building basic CRUD apps with Django.

Thanks for this! I wish there were more cross-comparisons like this out there of what it is actually like to use some of these frameworks, the note on Django being a little less magic than Rails makes me genuinely interested in it.

I always return to Django for any project. It's fantastic. Enough batteries are included with it that it is very powerful.

Django is objectively the most productive "boring technology" I've ever worked with for developing web applications. They don't regularly add too many bells and whistles on every release, but they keep it stable and reasonably backwards compatible.

Django aside, I think this is a really important point:

  Being able to abandon a project for months or years and then come back
  to it is really important to me (that’s how all my projects work!) ...

It's perhaps especially true for a hobbyist situation, but even in a bigger environment, there is a cost to keeping people on hand who understand how XYZ works, getting new people up to speed, etc.

I, too, have found found that my interactions with past versions of myself across decades has been a nice way to learn good habits that also benefit me professionally.