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can you list the features that are lacking in django?

I would point to two of the most popular plugins, Django Rest Framework (DRF) and Celery (a background task system that requires rabbitmq|kafka|redis|etc).

Both add highly sought-after features, but I believe these implementations are quite poor, complicated. Django could implement MVPs in core/contrib and vastly simplify future projects for users.

A builtin OIDC client abstraction would go a long way as well.

The worst thing about DRF is the dogmatic adherence to inexplicable class hierarchies, something that is modeled after Django class based views. I think Django would fumble a DRF implementation.

All you really need is a decent built-in JSON de/serializer for Django models. It doesn't need to be an OOP monstrosity.

Golang has that built-in to what is a simpler language than Python (e.g. no class inheritance).

The complexity of DRF greatly oversteps what it is offering.

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