Django

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Django just ignores what's not specified in the models. Django does have default table and column names based on the models that it prefers, but all of it is overridable in officially-supported ways.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-05

• “the best development cycle as a rails/django multi page apps developer”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “I had better results with this stack than I had with Django when using purely CC”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “the previous team of django developers could only see their trusty django hammer”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “if it's something you could do with e.g. a simple Django app you'll not only be done faster but will spend an order of magnitude less time on maintenance and accessibility work”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “The Django and "lean" flask, or "simple" cli apps I worked with and on, quite commonly have hundreds of dependencies”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “fixing the queries which usually originate from Django ORM is a bit hit or miss”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “Every Flask project I work on slowly reinvents Django via a combination of plugins of varied quality and custom code/plugins”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “I'm totally spoiled by a decade in Django. Just let me build a CRUD app, on the server, that spits out HTML without an excessive swamp of unmaintained nonsense”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-21

• “Django request's session infrastructure creates a circular reference meaning that requests have to get GC'd to get cleaned up in CPython”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-14

• “makes it a lot easier to build and productionalize something using Django”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-10

• “So glad I decided to just stick with django/htmx on my project”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-19

• “there is nothing I can use for Rust that is as powerful and easy as Django”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-12

• “I inherited a few Django apps, and each thread just grows to 1GB”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-06

• “I was all in on the full stack debug capability in pycharm of Django”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-14

• “it's unconventional for Django projects but has worked really well for us in production”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-02

• “A Django app I built also had trouble with acceptable response times with just a a few users too.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-02

• “django-like migrations aren't in every language. On the one hand they seem so straightforward and powerful”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-28

• “my default to go now is Django + Tailwind with HTMX and celery”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-18

• “Ive been thinking of coding a trello-like into my home django project”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-14

• “Happy to answer questions about the app or running Django lean - I've got a few longer running Django projects.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-12-15

• “So nice to have this directly built _into_ Django, especially for very simple task scheduling.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-04

• “Django was really well-written, and had great documentation, and I could get going with it really quickly. If the docs didn't explain it, I could read the source code.”

  POSITIVE · documentation · Hacker News · 2025-12-01

• “why use Django to begin with if you are not going to use the huge ecosystem that comes with it. New Django has first-class support for background workers”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-03

• “anything that benefits from asynchrony and is trivial in Node is indeed a pain in Django”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-03