How good is Django?

It's Django Reinhardt, not Django the web framework

A brief riff on stable, mature tools. I’ve been playing around recently with a little project involving recommender systems. Anyway, for the website, I ended up reaching for Django. Man, it’s been over a year since I’ve done any Django projects, but I forgot how joy it is to use it. The documentation is excellent. The platform is pretty stable and very mature. There’s a lot of useful packages and integrations: DRF, Celery, the debug toolbar, allauth, wagtail, haystack (for search) etc etc. for It’s just lovely, usable technology, and I feel old saying this, but I value that more and more. In my PhD, I had some unpleasant experiences with a rapidly changing landscape for software in AI and ML, and it made me value stability a whole lot more. Let us never talk about NVIDIA drivers on linux or nouveau.

Another pleasant find was dokuwiki which has been a breeze to setup and use. I tried several other wiki implementations for self-hosting on an raspberry pi v1 but they didn’t measure up for a few reasons:

Wiki.js (wants 2GB ram, complex node dependencies, needed constant internet connection and configured domain)
wikmd (slow, didn’t work out of the box)
wikidocs (didn’t work out of the box)

It was eye opening how much harder it was making things work with 32-bit ARM11. I thought ARM support would be much better given the Apple chips.