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Ask YC: Who is using django and what has your experience been so far?
1 point by babul on May 8, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Ask YC: Who is using django and what has your experience been so far?

What are the main problems you have faced? solutions? Alternate paths you could have taken?

Just wanting to know more about some other real-world uses while I hack away with it.



I use Django at the Washington Post to develop interactive databases and respond to breaking news. Most of the codebase was written by Adrian Holovaty, a creator of Django, and it's by far the best codebase I've ever inherited.

The admin interface is truly great and allows the non-technical folks to easily work with data, and it's nice that it's consistent across projects. The templating was easy to train graphic designers on. I'm very happy with Django overall.

I was pretty concerned for a while about the health of Django. It's been over a year since the last feature release, but in the last month development has woken back up. Branches are getting merged to trunk, there's finally a plan for 1.0, and there are regular commits to the repository. I'm pleasantly surprised.

I wrote a blog post when I started that links to a few of the largest apps: http://push.cx/2007/washingtonpostcom


I am just getting into it and am trying a few things with it on the google app engine.

I am also trying to collect real-world apps and code to see how others are build and hence learn by thier example.


I know many high profile site e.g. Pownce are using it without major issues but want to know about the experiences of others here. Thanks.




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