I always like presentations like this. I think most languages really just need screencasts where people show you, "here is how you start using this language." One of my favorites was Ryan Dahl's introduction to Node.js, which had the same general form:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I

So thanks for that.

I still don't like Django so much, precisely because of the fact that you're sitting here navigating through these massive config files -- and you even need Django's bundled applications to make those files in the first place. Libraries seem much cleaner to me. I guess what I'm dreaming of is a version of django where this whole talk becomes a little simpler, a sort of cookie-cutter formalism where you just start writing:

    #!/usr/bin/python
    import django
    
    serve = django.server(port=8080, db=('sqlite3', 'mysite.db'))
    serve.url('/admin/.*', django.admin_site())
    
    blog = serve.app(model={
        "some json model": "I don't know exactly how it works"
    })
    serve.url('/blog/.*', blog)

...to accomplish the same thing that you're doing in this talk. I mean, it's okay that applications often get their own folder, but shouldn't they grow into that with import statements?

An open question to HN: are there libraries which do this sort of thing which I should know about?