Are companies and Python developers switching from DJango to Node.js/Meteor?

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Are companies and Python developers switching from Python/DJango to Javascript/Node.js/Meteor?

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32 Comments

onjin •  Oct 22, 2014, 11:41 AM

Let's imagine:

• hey Boss, our team is very efficient with python, we have 3 successful products written in python
• good, so?
• i wonder if we could rewrite everything from scratch and start learning something else

monkeyvselephant •  Oct 22, 2014, 12:14 PM

I shit you not... this happens a lot more often than you think, but it's usually the other way around where the boss (potentially new) motivates the team to go in a drastically different direction. 

itsucharo •  Oct 22, 2014, 6:58 PM

I've made that argument successfully. Years later, still think it was the right call in those cases.

eliben •  Oct 22, 2014, 11:22 AM

And Node.js devs are switching to Go. Yes. All of them.

Some developers are always chasing the new and shiny. This is great. But many others just keep using known and tested technologies. That's great too. 

Don't panic, keep coding :-)

monkeyvselephant •  Oct 22, 2014, 12:15 PM

an established dotcom is going to choose stability over shiny 9 times out of 10. 

kteague •  Oct 22, 2014, 11:45 AM

Javascript apps? Web apps have been going in that direction before Django was even conceived ...

The javascript tools and frameworks (and browsers!) are finally getting good enough that building such apps isn't a total exercise in frustration. I'd be curious to hear if anyone thinks that getting such apps up and running is easier for a web dev beginner than compared to something like Django.

Companies? My org shares the model for much of it's data in an SQLAlchemy package for use by command-line apps, so re-doing that model in Javascript isn't very appealing and so doing web things in Python still makes the most sense. I think if I said, "Let's do all our pipeline work in Javascript!" at work, I'd get bad looks. Python is always going to be a more pleasing language to write in than Javascript.

landyman •  Oct 22, 2014, 12:28 PM

As someone who manages development at a company; we are NOT considering fully switching from Django/Python to Node.js/Meteor. We have never talked about switching our existing Django apps to anything else.

That being said; we have looked at using node.js for future projects; but we'll probably stick with using a Front-end framework and using Django or Flask on the backend, depending on the project. 

My personal opinion is that I like writing apps in Python and am comfortable with getting a project out the door with it. There is no compelling reason for me to change that. If I knew I could code something up faster/easier in Node.js/meteor, then I would consider switching to it; but so far, that isn't the case. Python/Django work great for us.

rackmountrambo •  Oct 22, 2014, 11:56 AM

Writes post to ask question even though he's already made his mind up. Plans to cut out the non-supporing answers before he print screens and sends it to his boss...