Interesting, I spent most of the last year working on two serious Django apps, both of which were very different from the kind of sites Django was first designe

Interesting, I spent most of the last year working on two serious Django apps, both of which were very different from the kind of sites Django was first designed for. Replacing the things that didn't work for us with custom components was incredibly easy. By writing middleware and custom template tags we were able to quickly add the functionality we needed. Sure, there were times when we were frustrated by some Django design decision, but ultimately I walked away really happy with Django as a framework. In the past I have used Rails and Pylons and so far I prefer Django and will likely use it as a starting point for most of my web development, at least until I can start using Clojure more often.