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Django 1.0 is finally here

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And the blog post where you can congratulate the team: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/03/1/

And if you want to say a different thank you, here are some wishlists. Add more that you know of.

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Interesting how my wishlist grew as I looked at theirs.

Remember to donate as well :).

Congrats to the Django team for making the big 1.0!

Loads of new (but mostly currently in-place) features make everyone happy! No more newbie confusion on whether to download from the SVN trunk means I can finally sleep peacefully. :D

Great new functionality. It took me very little work to migrate an old project to the new version - and the majority of that was removing my use of deprecated features (and using their replacements).

Thanks to everyone that contributed.

This definitely made my day. I assume there should be more books on the way now, along with even more screencasts.

Great news. I really do think Django surpasses Rails in core areas...

...and Rails surpasses Django in other core areas...

Not all problems are nails, hammer not tool for all circumstances, news at eleven.

Rails and Django are very, very similar in what they set out to accomplish, but they do so in different ways. TBH I don't really think you'd every come up against a project that was obviously suited to one framework or the other.

Sure, but I mean parts of Rails are better than Django.

For example, I think Rails has better support for migrations than Django. Its not a huge, "game-changing" kind of difference, but its an instance of something that Rails surpasses Django in a core area. There are similar examples of Django being better.

I just think great-grandparent comment is a really lame analysis of technology. "This thing is better than other thing." Thanks for your deep analysis there sir!

That's it? That's the difference between Rails and Django - if it were Rails reaching 1.0, there would be a huge party and screencasts everywhere and a demo showing how to write windows 95 in 10 minutes.

Django just released and that's all.

On the one hand I'm happy because over hyped products tend to be constantly flooded by new users. On the other hand, if a project is too quiet, it tends to lose users to more sexy technologies, and sooner or later, nobody is using it.

I don't want it to turn out that I put my bets on the betamax of the the frameworks.

I don't think Django == Betamax, but I do agree it certainly was a quiet release. Hopefully the improvements and the quality of the release will be sufficient to generate some buzz.

That's the way we like it.

Well, there can really only be "betamax" problems when you have a winner-take-all economy. Since these frameworks are just code that outputs (JS|HTML|JSON|etc), there isn't really a way that any framework could become a betamax.

That said, for myself, the Django 1.0 isn't that exciting. What will be exciting is the development from now on. I mean, I've been tracking SVN and so 1.0 doesn't offer me cool new things. It's also just a different community. DHH is great at getting the word out and getting the hype up there. Django is more subdued.

You can't go too wrong with either Rails or Django. Don't worry. Be happy. Be productive.

Attention is zero-sum.

There's a conference and party this weekend.

Also, blackjack and hookers.

There are 10500 subscriptions to django-users.

Betamax?

"Django just released and that's all."

they have been releasing for a long time. The news here is the 1.0 version number.

Shipping is a feature.

Bout time!

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