1. "The Framework for Perfectionists with Deadlines", not "The Framework for Non-Programmers Who Don't Know How Pick Up A Framework" 2. What? 3. Good talent i

1. "The Framework for Perfectionists with Deadlines", not "The Framework for Non-Programmers Who Don't Know How Pick Up A Framework" 2. What? 3. Good talent is generally not free. Turns out that right now, a lot of good talent happens to like Django. Perhaps this indicates something, hm? 4. As opposed to writing raw SQL for different RDBMS's? 5. What? 6. If you use something large like Photoshop, the amount of memory it consumes is large, too. Pinax is a large collection of apps. Turn off the parts you don't need! 7. What? Setting up sites to handle 1k reqs/second is trivial with a little bit of caching. 8. Perhaps you should read release notes then, hm? 9. Welcome to Django -- don't use the parts you don't like. People have successfully used Jinja with Django to good effect. But your claim of the template language being hard for designers to understand is bullshit. The most advanced logic they have to deal with is if/else, and even that got easy in 1.2 with the smart-if tag. 10. See point 1. You might not like Django for a lot of valid reasons -- but all of these weren't.