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Also very notable benefits: * Ease of upgrading between versions. This is especially critical and important if you have long lived projects. * Excellent docum

• KyeRussell 8y ago
  > * Ease of upgrading between versions. This is especially critical and important if you have long lived projects. This is such a big deal and I can't work out how the JavaScript community has been operating under its 'break everything in a week' model for so long with such high traction. Django has a sane, predictable release schedule. Django has LTS releases with years of support. I work in an agency environment where applications can sit running for years without being touched, and when new work needs to be done - I can't have my entire dependency tree falling from under my feet (or arguably worse, abandoned) because people have decided that backwards compatibility doesn't mean anything. It's so so hard to not be cynical about this. The entire development world feels like it's more-so every day geared toward time-rich development teams pumping out software in a startup environment frothing over the next big thing. I have to account for every hour of my time, switching between / training other developers on new-hotness JavaScript frameworks is unjustifiable.