Django was my first big freelance project, and still feels tremendously cozy to use. I've done some goofy things with it and it's always served me really well. Thank you Django
Django's batteries included setup makes it a no brainer for almost any project big or small. Kudos to the team and contributers
Can someone remind me how we ended up in the SPA era and why exactly? Was it about not seeing the loading spinner? Or there were more reasons to it?
Whenever I use Django, I enjoy it. Simple as.
Thanks to Django. I got into the webdev world so easily.
Curious, how come Django started to make major versions instead of 1.*?
Can be the decreasing in popularity the reason to make Something to change it?
Oh, looks more transparent.
Show of hands for backend web services development -
Who uses Django, Rails, or similar full-featured frameworks?
Who uses micro-frameworks like Flask?
Who uses enterprise Java, Jetty, Dot Net, etc.?
Who uses an entirely Javascript stack?
Who uses a non-traditional language that has become more web-servicey, like Go, Rust, or Swift?
Who uses something so wildly untraditional that it's barely mentioned? OkCupid using C++, etc.?
Who uses an entirely custom framework (in any language)?
Would really love to see a break down of who is using what, how people feel about their tech stack, etc.?
This would make an interesting poll. I think that's possible here? Maybe with some karma threshold, I don't seem to be able to make one.
We use flask and go at work. I've been micro-framework or roll-my-own-framework most of my career. Go is new for me though, and it's grown on me enough that it's what I prefer for new web-facing projects even for little personal things.
I"m almost entirely dotnet these days, with a smattering of Go here and there.
I work in ops though, so I'm not building consumer-facing products but mostly IT glue code and internal tooling (mostly Go), dashboards, business report generators, gluing SaaS together, etc. (mostly dotnet/C#).
One proxy might be to look at the upvote counts for each of their respective latest release HN posts.
Eg, this post has ~50 (though only posted an hour ago)
Rails 8 had ~550
At work, it is mainly Kotlin and Go webservices with some Rust for very specific use cases
I started using Django before the official 1.0 release and used it almost exclusively for years on web projects.
Lately I prefer to mix my own tooling and a couple major packages in for backends (FastAPI, SQLAchemy) that are still heavily inspired by patterns I picked up while using Django. I end up with a little more boilerplate, but I also end up with a little more stylistic flexibility.
I still have some very old Django projects that I'm maintaining for > 15 years. It's an absolute delight.
- Have written Rails and Django both
- Have written SPAs (React/Svelte)
- Have written Go based services
Each has their on pros and cons.
Fable (just for the fun of it) and the new one dot net one file web services that resemble flask
Perl, CGI.
Love it!
Which version of Perl are you using, and what type of service(s) are you maintaining?
Is this older software, or do you use it for new projects too?
Have you rolled any sort of framework yourself?
What are your thoughts on Raku?
I target 5.10.1 mostly. This is for a project I started in the late 90's. It uses CGI::Application, which is less a framework and more a method lookup table converter of queries (although I built a path info convertor on top of that). It's still maintained, although before Covid, it was my livelihood.
About a quarter of a million lines of code, excluding the libraries I pull in. I'm mostly self-taught, they wouldn't even let me get a minor in Comp Sci, since I didn't have the math background (Needed Calculus, I completeled Algebra 2 in hs). Boneheaded Uni.
Raku: Second-system effect poster boy. Sensationally dysfunctional community. I think Pugs is what was actually really incredible and Audrey is probably one of the most intelligent people in... the World? Up for contention, but top 10.