I was equally familiar with both abt 3-4 years ago when I started with a new client project when I had to pick a framework. Which meant at that time about zero.
Abt > 10 years before I used rails 2 in a stock market simulator project. Then I was project managing a django project and sometimes I had to go in and look at the code and help with small changes.
In the end I decided to pick django simply because I wanted to learn python.
Both are good enough
In fact I’m here in WIP because I’m my journey to learn django I “internet met” @jefftriplett who gave me invite here.
I faced this X and Y problem many years ago (>15 y ago). I was also told both are good enough. While intellectually I understood, I still persisted research.
Which was a waste of time.
Not saying you will also do that but if you do I understand and emphathize. Been there done that.
All I can say is this: either you pick a framework and move on to more impt stuff like understanding your user problem
Or
You spend more time researching like I once did.
I know the pain of using extra research as a way to procrastinate which is why about 3-4 years ago I decided to leave the php ecosystem when taking on a new client project, I needed to choose again. This time, I didn’t spend too much time with such research I did a cursory one between python and ruby and Javascript
Then between flask and django
Then that’s it.
Being intentional to be better in any framework or language matters more than the choice of language or framework
Pick the one you’re more familiar with.
I was equally familiar with both abt 3-4 years ago when I started with a new client project when I had to pick a framework. Which meant at that time about zero.
Abt > 10 years before I used rails 2 in a stock market simulator project. Then I was project managing a django project and sometimes I had to go in and look at the code and help with small changes.
In the end I decided to pick django simply because I wanted to learn python.
Both are good enough
In fact I’m here in WIP because I’m my journey to learn django I “internet met” @jefftriplett who gave me invite here.
I faced this X and Y problem many years ago (>15 y ago). I was also told both are good enough. While intellectually I understood, I still persisted research.
Which was a waste of time.
Not saying you will also do that but if you do I understand and emphathize. Been there done that.
All I can say is this: either you pick a framework and move on to more impt stuff like understanding your user problem
Or
You spend more time researching like I once did.
I know the pain of using extra research as a way to procrastinate which is why about 3-4 years ago I decided to leave the php ecosystem when taking on a new client project, I needed to choose again. This time, I didn’t spend too much time with such research I did a cursory one between python and ruby and Javascript
Then between flask and django
Then that’s it.
Being intentional to be better in any framework or language matters more than the choice of language or framework
This is true for web technology afaik
Good luck 🤞