On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:05 AM, beetlecube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read a blog entry somewhere by someone contemplating the ideal type > of web application needs that Django best meets: Since it was > written originally for publishing articles in a newspaper environment, > it's good for blogs or other Article type sites.
My usual response to this is as follows: "I was thinking about using Rails to build my site, but it looks like it's really only good for AJAX-heavy project-management and to-do-list applications. Should I consider something else if that's not what I'm building?" And sometimes I think people underestimate just what goes into a high-quality newspaper site; there are tons of interactive and intense data-processing and other background things going on at, say, ljworld.com, but people hear "newspaper" and think "oh, it's just some basic CMS stuff". If anyone really thinks it's that easy, they're welcome to come work for us and see how things really are ;) > Shouldn't matter, should it, what kind of web app? More succinctly, no, it shouldn't. I've seen Django used, successfully, for projects all over the spectrum of web development (CMS, data processing, highly interactive user-content apps, even point-of-sale systems). Ultimately, it's up to you to make the call as to whether it's right for what you want to do, but unless you're in a domain where there's a need for highly specialized tools (for example: if I were building a live IM system in Python I'd use Twisted for its awesome network-oriented features), Django should be fine. So if it feels right for the way you like to develop, go for it. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
