really not a fan of these 'rails is like a ferrari, django is like an aston martin' type of similes, they mean nothing to me. the article itself is pretty light on content; not much here except a baitish title.
I agree with you that this post does not come to much of a point. However, in my own experience, I had the same sense that Django was more straightforward, simple, and transparent than Rails - just look at the file structure of an empty project, or the baseline implementation of models.
I now work with both professionally, and Django still feels a little more straightforward. The other side of this is that I occasionally find myself wishing for some aspect of Rails "magic" in Django projects.
I also think that the way Rails is implemented (and to a lesser degree, the Ruby language) takes a little more experience and learning to understand in a meaningful way.
"I also think that the way Rails is implemented (and to a lesser degree, the Ruby language) takes a little more experience and learning to understand in a meaningful way."
I think this has a lot to do with the person. Ruby and Python are almost identical technically (relative to other popular languages). I personally found ruby a lot more intuitive, and I used python for a year or two before I tried ruby. I'm sure this is a statement about me, not ruby or python.
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really not a fan of these 'rails is like a ferrari, django is like an aston martin' type of similes, they mean nothing to me. the article itself is pretty light on content; not much here except a baitish title.
I agree with you that this post does not come to much of a point. However, in my own experience, I had the same sense that Django was more straightforward, simple, and transparent than Rails - just look at the file structure of an empty project, or the baseline implementation of models.
I now work with both professionally, and Django still feels a little more straightforward. The other side of this is that I occasionally find myself wishing for some aspect of Rails "magic" in Django projects.
I also think that the way Rails is implemented (and to a lesser degree, the Ruby language) takes a little more experience and learning to understand in a meaningful way.
"I also think that the way Rails is implemented (and to a lesser degree, the Ruby language) takes a little more experience and learning to understand in a meaningful way."
I think this has a lot to do with the person. Ruby and Python are almost identical technically (relative to other popular languages). I personally found ruby a lot more intuitive, and I used python for a year or two before I tried ruby. I'm sure this is a statement about me, not ruby or python.