I'll tell you what I love about Django: the whole damn framework. It wasn't that long ago that you had to handle everything yourself, using home-brew functions

I'll tell you what I love about Django: the whole damn framework. It wasn't that long ago that you had to handle everything yourself, using home-brew functions and funny little hacks and plenty of local knowledge. Most of a project was spent writing utility code and trapping errors rather than coding the requirements themselves. It was mind-numbingly tedious, error-prone work, and after a few big projects in Perl I'd pretty much decided I didn't want to do it again. (Even CPAN can only do so much for you.) Django and similar frameworks are game-changing technologies. Apps can literally be tackled in 1/10th of the time, they work better and (as the linked article mentions) you get that incredibly nifty admin interface with it. Django development could stop right now and I'd still be using it for years to come. /evangelise ;)