Thanks Sybren for the reply! Regarding this point: > The form handling is also excellent.
Is it excellent in a way that's "better" than RoR in certain ways? Regards, Ray Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Ray enlightened us with: > > Two of the senior developers, however, are already rooting for Ruby on > > Rails--although they haven't tried RoR themselves. When I suggested > > Django, they went like, "what's that?". > > > > I said, "It's like the Python counterpart of RoR". > > Bad answer. Now they think they'll get the same thing they already > have with RoR, but that they'll have to put more effort into it. > > > "Nah, we're not interested in Python." > > Ask them why. > > > I think they are already predisposed to RoR simply because of RoR's > > visibility (i.e.: at my workplace everybody knows RoR but nobody > > knows about Django unless they've used Python as well). > > Which means most of the people saying "we're not interested in Python" > do so without proper reason, since they don't know the language. > > > 1. The investment of learning Python will be a good investment > > because it transfer to platforms that we've already supported, i.e.: > > JVM and .NET CLR (using Jython and IronPython). Ruby's availability > > on this platform is not as mature--JRuby is still at 0.9 and I don't > > think IronRuby is coming out anytime soon :) > > Jython isn't up to par with current Python versions either. > > > 2. Python is a much more mature language than Ruby--it's been around > > since ages ago and as such has a lot more tools, articles, and other > > resources than Ruby. It is also the language being used by > > high-visibility company like Google, with the creator of the > > language himself working there. > > That is _definitely_ true. The behaviour of Ruby hasn't even properly > been defined. > > > 4. What else? I haven't tried RoR so I can't argue meaningfully on > > whether using Django will put us at an advantage. > > Check out the admin you get for free with Django. Add/edit/delete > controls are easily done with RoR, but Django comes with a mature, > easy to use, on-the-fly generated, customizable admin. The form > handling is also excellent. > > Sybren > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
