The tech giants are pushing JavaScript more than Python these days.
JavaScript is said to be the future language for enterprise applications.
I think Python will be around but will play a third place role behind
JavaScript and PHP. Yes, I said PHP and I apologize but its true just look
at the cloud support that is quietly being offered for PHP. I have used PHP
extensively and it can be very good and very bad depending on the
developer. .NET is terrible I almost quit an IT career before it started
because we were forced to use Visual Studio and Microsoft technologies for
web development in college. My opinion as long as good design principles
are followed using an MVC approach all three are good choices. Python is
not going to go away because it is being used to teach the next generation
of computer scientists throughout the world. Get used to { } all over the
place or just stick with Python and Django it will not matter.
On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:44:12 PM UTC-5, damond...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if this community is somewhat worried about the
> future relevance of Django (and other purely server-side MV* Python web
> app frameworks such as web2py for that matter) given the current momentum
> of JavaScript (JS) everywhere?
>
> There are many competing architecture patterns for a WHOLE web app today
> ranging:
> a) from client-heavy SPA with a client-side MVC framework synching its
> models via a REST API with a server-side reduced to a database access layer
>
> b) to light client apps with a server-side MVC frameworks and very little
> or no Ajax
>
> c) and everything in the middle.
>
> I guess it is not too controversial to say that which is best (or even
> merely adequate) depends on the generally moving target of the app
> requirements (especially the non-functional ones) and thus a long
> lifecycle app can be expected to have to change pattern at some point.
>
>
> Given that:
> 1) full web apps following any pattern can today be developed exclusively
> with JavaScript (JS) frameworks on both sides who have incorporated most
> (if not all) great design ideas from Django (and Rails)
>
> 2) IDEs ranging from Visual Studio to browser-based ones are available to
> support such development
>
> 3) Python in the browser projects do not yet provide productive debugging
> support (and will they ever without support from a tech giant?)
>
> 4) Cloud giants (Amazon, Google, Heroku, Microsoft) all offering JS framework
> running servers
>
> are the productivity gains from the more legible, concise and abstract
> Python code as compared to JS code really compensate the productivity
> loss of having to port part of the app from one language to other every
> time it must be pushed from one side (say server) to the other (say
> client), or even to maintain a code base in two languages instead of one?
>
> Why then adopt Django (or web2py) for a new project today, instead of
> going pure JS?
>
> I am a big Python fan in terms of design and principles, but I am fearing
> that it has started to lose the popularity/adoption/community size battle
> against JS, which, from a pragmatic productivity standpoint is relevant
> and thus potentially snowballing after a tipping point is reached. Trends
> are deadly fast in web development, cf. how quickly J2EE+static HTML, then
> J2EE+Flash and .NET+Silverlight have fallen from grace.
>
> Any thought on this?
>
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