Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension
by arcturus17 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:41AM
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I don't know anything about Rails but after having built a fairly large production web app with Django about a year ago, nothing about it felt cutting-edge to me:
- Async support was second class back then, not obvious how to implement fully.
- REST APIs are a library add-on instead of first-class. An excellent library, but still.
- The package ecosystem sometimes reminded me of the wild-west that is Node.js
- Dependency management is a complicated story (arguably caused by Python, rather than Django itself)
- Django Models are cool and expressive, but nowadays I would rather express my models in something like a dataclass, or a Pydantic model, or just a regular class...
Maybe Rails has these problems and more, I don't know. I'm not saying I'm never going to use Django again, but there's a large chance I will look elsewhere for a batteries-included framework next time I need one.
- Async support was second class back then, not obvious how to implement fully.
- REST APIs are a library add-on instead of first-class. An excellent library, but still.
- The package ecosystem sometimes reminded me of the wild-west that is Node.js
- Dependency management is a complicated story (arguably caused by Python, rather than Django itself)
- Django Models are cool and expressive, but nowadays I would rather express my models in something like a dataclass, or a Pydantic model, or just a regular class...
Maybe Rails has these problems and more, I don't know. I'm not saying I'm never going to use Django again, but there's a large chance I will look elsewhere for a batteries-included framework next time I need one.