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Re:Should I learn Java or Python for web applications? by btaylorweb on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:08PM (#5266014)
As a former senior developer at Razorfish in Austin, I have only worked on 1, no that's not a typo, 1 Java project that wasn't an utter failure.

On the other hand, I've yet to work on a Django project that was delivered late or ran over budget and was easily 10x more maintainable.

I put my money on Python and Django in 2008, and haven't looked back.

Re:Should I learn Java or Python for web applications? by exelib on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:54PM (#5266344)
I work on big insurance java project (initiated before 2003, 300 people in development, now more than 450 people). This is not a lot of little independent projects - it's ONE Project with more than 75 components! It's high quality software and we make crazy amount of user stories get every sprint out. Of course, we have errors, RTE's - we are all humans. I worked also for others companies and write PHP and Python/Django for years. Failure has nothing with language or framework or tools - it's always human fail. Sorry for my bad english.
Re:Should I learn Java or Python for web applications? by btaylorweb on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:43AM (#5318693)
I agree. A language or framework isn't a reason for failure, however, it's a pattern that I observed at Razorfish for a few years. Maybe the devs we had just weren't very good :)