Comments on: I’ll take gems in my coffee http://blog.elisehuard.be/2007/04/ill-take-gems-in-my-coffee/ Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:01:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Xavier http://blog.elisehuard.be/2007/04/ill-take-gems-in-my-coffee/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Xavier Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:51:09 +0000 http://blog.elisehuard.be/?p=20#comment-52 Django looks cool from a Python perspective but all things equals, it's more verbose (and less DRY) than RoR. If I was coerced into using Python, I'd most certainly go for Django over TurboGears or web.py. I was so in love with Python back in the days! I used to find its syntax cleaner than Ruby which had too many syntactic sugar but Rails changed the game. It's the first framework that leverages its host language to focus on beauty. Rails just turns all that raw sugar into nicely packaged yummy candies! :) As far as scalability is concerned, it's an happy problem. You can always address it by narrowing down the bottlenecks and optimize them. Hardware is cheap, clean code produced by happy people is priceless. I like DHH's very down to earth approach to tackle performance issues : http://www.infoq.com/interviews/David-Hansson Rails is of course no silverbullet... it's simply the most enjoyable and self-rewarding way to write database-driven web apps at this point in time so let's just enjoy it! ;) Django looks cool from a Python perspective but all things equals, it’s more verbose (and less DRY) than RoR.

If I was coerced into using Python, I’d most certainly go for Django over TurboGears or web.py.

I was so in love with Python back in the days!
I used to find its syntax cleaner than Ruby which had too many syntactic sugar but Rails changed the game. It’s the first framework that leverages its host language to focus on beauty. Rails just turns all that raw sugar into nicely packaged yummy candies! :)

As far as scalability is concerned, it’s an happy problem. You can always address it by narrowing down the bottlenecks and optimize them. Hardware is cheap, clean code produced by happy people is priceless.

I like DHH’s very down to earth approach to tackle performance issues : http://www.infoq.com/interviews/David-Hansson

Rails is of course no silverbullet… it’s simply the most enjoyable and self-rewarding way to write database-driven web apps at this point in time so let’s just enjoy it! ;)

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