Django Popularity

Welcome @yoanbello !

Per Highlights from the Django Developer Survey 2024 | InfoWorld, it’s still the preferred framework for 74% of Python developers. That’s still a fairly substantial number.

I’ve been reading “stuff” like this for about 10 years now, along with the “Java is dead”, “COBOL is dead” and “Fortran is dead”. I didn’t pay any attention to it then, and I don’t pay any attention to it now.

By definition, “New” is news - but there are still a lot of us out still being very productive with it, and a lot of companies happy to be using something mature and stable.

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Note: I’ll avoid climbing too far on to my soapbox here, but I will say that the supposed benefits of a microservices architecture are way oversold. Yes, there are some environments in which it is beneficial, but I believe them to be far fewer than a lot of people realize, and most people considering them don’t fall into that category. They’re definitely not a panacea or even a “good” answer in many circumstances.
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“Mastery”? Years of work. Django is “big” as far as Python web frameworks are concerned. There are a lot of interrelationships between components and understanding how the pieces fit together is a big part of learning how to use Django effectively. (That, and understanding just how important the third-party libraries are as well. As comprehensive as Django is, it’s still not complete in that there are a lot of tools, utilities, and functionality existing external to core Django itself.)

To get started - see how to learn django - #2 by KenWhitesell and the posts that it links to.

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