Three years ago, I was shutting down my startup which was a webapp built in PHP using my own framework. I decided I was going to consult and I also decided it w

Three years ago, I was shutting down my startup which was a webapp built in PHP using my own framework. I decided I was going to consult and I also decided it was time to learn a professional, modern framework. At the time, RoR was hot and I was leaning towards it. Laravel felt good too because it was new and it seemed to do PHP web "right". The last option was Python and Django. What I liked about the latter is that data science seemed (still is?) the lingua franca of data science and I figured I could learn web programming and build up my Python skills that I could one day apply towards data science. I ultimately went with Python and haven't looked back. Django (particularly DRF - shout out to Tom Christie if he's reading) has been an utter joy to work with. Even though we're in the era of fat front-ends, it's nice to have a bullet-proof, well supported backend. Python donation page: https://www.python.org/psf/donations/ https://www.python.org/psf/donations/ Django donation page: https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/ https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/ Django rest framework donation page: https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/ https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/