Absolutely. There's a big curve to understanding Django, Rails, .NET well enough to be able to prototype a real application. There's an even bigger curve to doi

Absolutely. There's a big curve to understanding Django, Rails, .NET well enough to be able to prototype a real application. There's an even bigger curve to doing that in a maintainable way. I think it's good to get familiar with a variety of ways of building applications over a career so you can pull from the best of them to, again, be able to focus on _business problems_ you have and can solve. To me that includes a sustainable development model and system architecture.