Top 3 Reasons I Love Django

After having spent a large portion of my years programming in PHP, coming to Python and the Django framework is a breath of fresh air. Honestly. Drum roll pleeeeeease:

• Powerful template system

Hands down the templating system is flexible, and with tags can pretty much be tailored to do anything you want. This comes in especially handy when dealing with different clients and requests. It is also easy for designers to just pick it up and change it without having to explain to them a whole lot.

• Not Having To Write SQL

Some really smart people built Djangi's ORM from the ground up and it shows. I have not had a single instance yet where I had to drill down and write custom SQL. It all just works, and does so without getting in the way. Coming from PHP where writing SQL in your code is the norm, this was truly a change for the better.

And now for the best reason...
• Admin application

With a few lines of code, and an admin.py file you can have a full fledged admin panel that works for your specific application. You can even make it work for other non-Django applications just by defining the models and letting it do the heavy work. It is flexible, it works, and it saves a lot of time for me as a developer in putting together a backend for my clients.

Just those features alone have made me a more efficient developer so I can spend time writing code that actually matters! I just wished I knew about it a bit earlier..would have saved me a ton of work.

Posted on October 9, 2008

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