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Re:Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0 by samwillis on Thursday January 19, 2017 @05:00AM (#13434516)
The core Django developers will (and have) freely admit that the admin interface implementation is a bit of a mess. There is an enormous amount of technical debt in it. It is however not a "core" part of Django and there are many alternatives. I think most people would agree that the correct long term solution to the admin interface is a complete rewrite, however the cost of doing so is too high.

The html forms (used in the admin and everywhere else) have until now been generated from strings, however the next realise 1.11 (went to alpha yesterday) this has been changed to using the template tools.

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Re:Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0 by throwawayish on Thursday January 19, 2017 @05:32AM (#13434656)
While the admin code is kinda messy it's still easy to extend and customize. I'd be somewhat surprised if you could make something that dynamic and not be at least a bit messy.

I myself and also other people I know have written quite some domain-specific applications almost entirely within the Django admin, which are as a result: secure, fast and easy to use, which in some cases are not just a bit better than the existing commercial tooling in these domains.

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