You don’t need a Drillator-X 3000 AI Ready™ if a simple screwdriver gets the job done. IMHO the main thing technical people get wrong about B2B problems.

Also calling HTMX old makes me feel old.

yeah htmx is from 2020, it feels like yesterday

SvelteKit is also from 2020.

> You don’t need a Drillator-X 3000 AI Ready™ if a simple screwdriver gets the job done

Yes, and Django feels like more of a Drillator than a simple screwdriver to me.

> Django/HTMX seem quite 'old' technologies to me for a new project made in 2026.

It's simple, it works, it's efficient, safe, and there are tons of online resources for it. Excellent choice, even more so when using a coding agent.

I do have originally a data science background, thus python is usually my go to language, and have a lot of experience with django already. This helps a lot when reviewing AI code and if you have to judge architecture, etc.

And for hmtx I simply wanted to have something lightweight that is not very invasive to keep things simple and dependencies low.

In my head this was a good consideration to keep complexity low for my AI agents :-)

Sure there is nothing wrong here, I was just talking about a feeling. HTMX is quite recent, but this idea of embedding logic into HTML reminds me of the old jQuery days.

FastAPI is quite old (2018)

Svelte even older (2016, SvelteKit was just an new version in 2022)

SQLAlchemy is ancient (2006)

Use newer tech, like HTMX (2020)

(/s obviously)

HTMX is 5 years old, version 2 is just under 2 years old, and the last release (2.0.7) came out 7 months ago.