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That's fine. Some people consider Django bloated. Some prefer flask. Others will prefer something with more stuff included than Django. It sounds like you never were really the target audience for Django?

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What exactly is the target audience for Django? I actually love using Python and the Python design philosophy. If I'm not part of the target audience for Django, who is?

Well django is already very big.. so the target audience is people using Django ;-) It's a very stable, python-based, web framework with a huge community and widely supported. Some python hackers find it too big with too much bloated features. As far as I'm concerned, anytime I start with a smaller web-framework I need to add mostly all django functionaly the next few days so meh.

IMHO, for new projects, DJango is clearly one of the top contestant.

Yep. If half the world complains it does too much and the other half that it does too little then maybe it's got it about right ;-)

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