I'm having fun with django + htmx and going to deploy on elastic beanstalk.
It hits that sweetspot of speed of development and responsiveness. You also have the benefit of staying in one language.
Django has so much out of the box that you don't have to decide for yourself after the fact. So much accumulated knowledge of what works too.
Sure go ahead rewrite it if it starts making money and you can afford development time/salary. But these older technologies are easier to fit inside one head and let you get enough speed to take off.
This is also a very sane combination. HTMX is great and Django is also very impressive :) We need tools that work for us not us working to make them work.
Wasn’t that what Microsoft used to give us back in the days of Visual Studio, .NET and especially LightSwitch? Amazing technology, more than 10 years later we don’t have anything coming close to it for developer productivity.
It hits that sweetspot of speed of development and responsiveness. You also have the benefit of staying in one language.
Django has so much out of the box that you don't have to decide for yourself after the fact. So much accumulated knowledge of what works too.
Sure go ahead rewrite it if it starts making money and you can afford development time/salary. But these older technologies are easier to fit inside one head and let you get enough speed to take off.