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Having developed software on both Rails and Django, I prefer the latter. Reasoning: python's community seems more professional. They have well-defined language
by dscrd 14y ago
Having developed software on both Rails and Django, I prefer the latter. Reasoning: python's community seems more professional. They have well-defined language change and enhancement processes (the PEP), good docs online, almost every question imaginable has been answered already somewhere, and the performance ain't too bad.
Plus the code smell overall is just... lesser.
Then again, I came from a background of C and scheme, and somebody on c2 wrote that python appeals to people like me more.
- slig 14y agoAlso, the Django docs is awesome. Nothing gets into master without proper documentation.
- bascule 14y agoLast I checked out Django they had just added a bunch of features from Rails 1.2. (Edit: sorry, Rails 2.1) Python suffers from their web framework community being too fragmented, so none of the projects are as mature as Rails.
- hekker 14y agoI use Django for my projects and I don't share this opinion on the maturity aspect. Can you explain your statement a bit more? What aspects of Django are immature?
- bascule 14y agoThe release notes for Django 1.4, for example, list support for both Time Zones and Selenium. Time Zones were added to Rails 2.1 in 2008. selenium-on-rails also debuted in 2008. Does it not seem strange to you that it took 4 years after Rails for Django to get these features?
- dscrd 14y agoReally, if you wanna complain about something that's in Rails and not in Django properly, talk about database migrations.
- Styck 14y agoNot really a fair feature comparison. If db migration wasn't in Rails, ActiveRecord wouldn't work the way it does. You can't say the same about Django's ORM.
- hackerboos 14y agoSouth...but I agree that database migrations should be part of the Django core.
- ch0wn 14y agoThere were plenty of extensions that allowed you to use Selenium with Django, I maintained one of them. Django is fairly conservative about including new features into the core that work well as extensions. And this is something I value a lot. The time zone support, though, was really overdue.
- squidsoup 14y agoHaving moved from rails to django development the thing I am missing the most is the wide range of mature testing tools in the ruby ecosystem. Django's testing tools feel very primitive comparatively and there's no clear separation of unit, functional and integration tests. I'd agree that in general the python community feels more professional and that the quality of documentation is typically better.