Just to make sure everyone understands: yesterday’s post declaring Ruby on Rails the winner in the web framework wars was a joke. I hope no one thinks I might choose between two competing technologies because one’s version number is numerically greater than the other’s, even in part. As far as I’m concerned, none of the reasons I gave yesterday is a good reason to choose a technology. And I still love Python’s significant whitespace.

I’m sure Ruby on Rails is deserving of most if not all of its current hype. I’ve never used it. In truth, my opinion of the different frameworks is that I don’t really have one. I’m a Python guy, so I use a Python framework. I’ve tried Django and Turbogears, and both seemed like excellent pieces of software. Until I started my current job using Django, my only exposure to both was to complete their tutorials. Web.py seems lean and hip, but I know nothing about it.

Now that I am a full-time professional Django user, I like it very much, but I can’t even remember how it differs from Turbogears, except for the URL mapper in Django, which I always liked better than the object mapping technique Turbogears inherited from CherryPy.

So I use Django, but I had no part in choosing it at work, the code base was well established by the time I got there. I’d love to have an in-depth knowledge of the different frameworks, and a cogent and meaningful comparison of Ruby on Rails to the other technologies, but I don’t. Right now I’m quite well occupied learning all the corners in Django, and building a product.