singingwolfboy

A quarrel -- Pygments is written in Python, and is appropriately modular. Why did the author use subprocess and create new Python interpreter to run Pygments, when he could have just imported it and run it directly, without kicking off a new interpreter?

If you're going to swap out everything, are you really using Django to begin with? Why not just use TurboGears[1], which seems based on the idea of swapping out standard components?

[1] http://www.turbogears.org/

Python limits what can be changed at runtime: Ruby doesn't. That in itself attracts more outgoing, adventuresome people, whereas Python is changeable enough to be flexible, but not unstable -- which attracts people more interested in stability and security.