Some of the author's complaints are legit, but they hardly constitute evidence of decline. First, I figured out how to do Django+Tornado in a day 8 years ago a

Some of the author's complaints are legit, but they hardly constitute evidence of decline. First, I figured out how to do Django+Tornado in a day 8 years ago and PyCharm pays for itself over and over, every day. The rest of the arguments might deserve mention in a conversation about how the project could be improved, but it isn't clear to me that they presage Django following Visual Basic down the drain. I'm sure the Django maintainers would entertain PRs for any clear improvements over what's in place and lacking.