I came from a job where I had been crafting applications using zend framework - probably the closest thing php has to django. The more object oriented my php code became, the more it looked, and smelled, like java.
I ended up taking a new job, where my projects started to have dependencies on other python-based applications - the job made the choice for me, php had to go unless I wanted to start making sys calls to python on the command line (ugh). I evaluated a number of python frameworks and quickly arrived at django. I have to say the nuts and bolts attitude has, over the past year and a half, made me a better programmer. It's direct and doesn't get in my way. It also highlights many of python's strengths... I'm thinking in terms of simple things like the very organic way python code practically organizes itself into modules and packages, cluing us in to modules that violate the single responsibility rule just by looking at the number of lines (sort of), encouraging good DRY design through its own conventions. Combine all that with the fact the framework is setup in a way that yields large amounts of functionality from very terse code - this makes long term maintenance a dream - fewer lines == less maintenance. Who could ask for anything more? I've got no experience with Ruby (other than installing and running redmine), but as someone who also "gave up" php I can strongly recommend giving django a spin. If you work through the intro tutorial(s) on the site (probably will take you less than an hour), you'll have a good idea if it will work for you or not. PS - people love the admin part of django, but I'm not even going there. Just letting you know it's not even a factor in my recommendation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
