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It's a competition for jobs and influence within the industry. Nothing to sniff at.

That might be relevant if it actually reflected jobs available, but it doesn't, not even remotely (see my comments here for numbers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=805931)

Note also that according to the trends graph, djangoproject's visitors have also been steadily declining over the past year.

not necessarily visitors, just searches.

"Daily Unique Visitors" is what the graph claims to show.

I don't think so... it seems like the centers of gravity are just shifting around a bit. Look at github:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.djangop...

I agree, they both seem to be great frameworks, I've used rails and love it, and I've planned a project to learn Django with as it's peaked my interest.

Why can't we all enjoy the differences and enjoy them for different reasons? Do we spread ourselves too thin when we bounce around learning the basics of different frameworks? Or are we simply stocking our utility belt with more solutions to problems?