I agree, Django is just fantastic. Nothing is perfect, but Django is just really well-designed, with components that fit together naturally into a balanced whole.

Most loved feature, for me: No dramatic changes, just sane and careful evolution.

Django is boring, which is why it works well. Use the ORM together with DRF serializers and an OpenApi generator and you can create TS types and TS client directly from your API.

Works incredibly well almost straight out of the box for even quite large applications. Once you start to grow out of it, it's easy to bypass the ORM and write raw sql queries.

You also won't be re-writing your backend every few years, the cost of which techbros often ignore.

I haven’t used Django for a long time but when I did I found it one of the best documented projects out there.

Nice.

I've been meaning to do my own Django post, on some other bits we take for granted - I should do it.

People should be using Django, the best parts are so useful you don't notice them until you switch platforms and implement them badly.

Every app that used a more narrow solution ultimately ends up implementing parts of Django badly.

The best way to solve this from Djangos side would be to have official ways of:

- Using the ORM outside of Django - Doing single file Django apps

Both of these have various 3rd party solutions, which shows demand.

In the past other bits of Django have been split off by 3rd parties but those two are the places to start.

My favourite part of Django is it's not Rails :)

I remember, when I used it for the very first time in commercial project. Client briefed me in the afternoon, the next day, before the noon, she got ugly app, but with fully working admin backend. She was sold.

But I also remember, that some non-standard requirements were really difficult to implement or get around.

Having that in mind, the next project was entirely in Pylons. All was good, until we were asked to add Unicode support.

Since them I'm on Rails.