There is no easy way to measure this. But to support my point: Rails first public release: July 2004 (5 years back) Django's first public release: July 2005 (

There is no easy way to measure this. But to support my point: Rails first public release: July 2004 (5 years back) Django's first public release: July 2005 (4 years back) Rails Contributors: 1350 Django Contributors: 460 I never said that Django's community was smaller. I just said that it was more mature in their programming language and therefore it was easier for them to get things done right the first time.