clojurerocks

This is why theres people who say you shouldnt use an orm at all. I have to admit intially i liked the django orm however after a while i found that i prefered or wanted to make the called directly myself. There was just oo much mystery going on behind the scenes that i couldnt find out about.

You can probably use both node and ruby. From what ive seen sites that are using node use it more for the backend to serve ajax then for serving the web pages. Although i have seen few site with very ajax based interfaces that apparently use just node. It really depends on your ui i guess. Good luck with whatever you choose though!

Again i will disagree with you on that. One of the benefits of node and why its becomingly increasingly popular is that it allows ease of development with the benefits of scale built in. So you dont have to worry about a steep learning curve for a simple application that only a few people will ever use. Or that youre framework is easy to develop with but what happens if it becomes popular. What then. This is even more the case with todays applicaitons which incrasingly are "api" based with the web framework portion being used just to serve the ajax code and for urls and whatnot. With node you get all of it together.

Also if node used some other language that wasnt a standard this might also be true. But again it uses javascript or coffeescript which is becoming more and more used all f the time. Even in mobile applications and gaming now with canvas. Obviously if you know python or ruby or php extremely well and can build whatever you need quickly with that then theres no reason not to. I was new to python so it wasnt a major switch for me.

The problem in part is with hackernews actually. I dont find it very conducive to good discussions. I rarely comment myself actually. Most comments seem to be he said/she said and argumentative. Im actually surpised people dont ask for this site to be improved. And i guess it never will. But it would be nice to have constructive conversations about these things rather then arguments.

Id have to disagree with that myself. While node and mongodb are both "shiny" they are because they solve a problem that people have and offer solutions to problems that are very appealing. Including as i mentioned i blieve in another comment here that using node allows you to only have ot work with one language. Which is great. So its true that python has similiar technologies such as tornado and twisted. But if node works then why not just stick to one technology to have to maintain rather then multiple ones. Also node has a great community that is increasing. Many python libraries dont have this. Meaning really documentation. For example tornado has very little documentation.

Yawn.

No idea what defers and only are. Actually maybe only was what i was looking for. The django documentation for many things such as this is almost non existent. Some of it is from older versions as well. And im sorry but how is a newbie supposed to find this stuff. Youve probably been working with python and django for a while. Which is great. But when youre just starting and playing around having to spend hours looking simplistic stuff like this up when you have a million other things to do really gets frustrating.

Part of this though is because web apps are for better or worse increasingly being almost nothing but javascript. And it becomes tedious moving back and forth between javascript and another language. Even if that language is really good. So i think people are just going with javascript for "everything" and rewriting their libraries in it.

Nice how i get voted down. Thus proving my point about the python and django communities. So glad i moved to node. I will still consider using python for backend stuff though.

This is another reason why i moved off of django. This arrogant attitude of belittling other people when they have problems. I expect this from the rails community not from python. However django is increasingly becoming a "its the django way or the highway buddy". Which is dissapointing frankly.

Theres a couple of issues i had with it personally. It doesnt work that well with nosql. Also i found it difficult to customize or do certain things that i wanted to do. Some of them very basic. For example i wanted to only return individual columns rather then all of them. I spent hours looking for how to do this. I finally found out you do .values or .select or something to that effect at the end of your call. Unfortunately i tried this and got errors. So i gave up in frustration.

Of course it depends what libraries youre looking or. If youre looking for libraries for build the "basics" of a web app then there are plenty of libraries available. If yore doing other things though and looking for libraries that dont exist maybe its because youre using the wrong technology.

After developing a v1.0 of a project with django i ended up also moving to node.js as well as mongodb as opposed to postgresql. I found myself increasingly wrestling with django. I really like python and the django community and think django is good for certain types of applications. But at least for what im building it wasnt the right solution. Im also using node.js for another project which is also currently built with django. It has different requirements and i might use python on the backend whereas the other project will most likely just be node.js and mongodb.

I dont know about projects on github, but im involved in a couple of projects that are looking for developers. One is for a non profit. And one is for a for profit. They are using cutting edge technologies such as django and node and mongodb and whatnot.

Ya lower prices. Make it like 99 dollars or something and it will sell like hotcakes. Or hell even cheaper.