On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 22:54 -0800, Innergy wrote: > Thanks for reading my question. I may not be asking all the right > questions. > > I am looking for a fast way to build a ecommerce site with many of the > qualities of threadless.com. I was told Django is an excellent > language and allows for rapid fast implementation. > > My back ground is not in development. So I am agnostic. I am currently > leaning towards Ruby for my project. How does Django compare to > Ruby? Is Django faster to develop in? Is it as stable as Ruby?
For somebody familiar with and expert in Python, Django will be faster. For somebody with Ruby skills, Ruby on Rails will be faster. Neither language (Python, Ruby) or web framework (Django, Rails) has any significant known stability problems and both programming languages have been around since the early- to mid-1990's. Django and Rails are roughly equivalent as frameworks; the differences are in the fine-details and I don't think any of those are show-stoppers. There are clearly trade-offs, since neither framework has everything that everybody wants, out of the box, but since they're both built on top of professional quality programming languages, it's possible to build any missing pieces if the motivation is strong enough. If you're asking for yourself, just setting our to learn a programming language and start development, then that's an entirely different question. Learning one of other language will probably take about the same amount of time. But I wouldn't be choosing threadless.com as the first project in that case and "fast" will not the appropriate word to describe the speed it will take to build if you also have to learn the programming language and the framework. In that case, you've essentially asked the equivalent of "I'm thinking about building a house and I don't have a background in construction. Should I use bricks or wood?" It's nice to have an end goal to keep you motivated, but there's a learning curve involved. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
