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Items tagged quora, frameworks in 2010

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What is the best license for a web framework (ex: Cake, Rails, Django): GPL, BSD, MIT, other? Why?

Not the GPL. The share-alike viral clause will prevent anyone from creating closed source proprietary projects on top of the framework.

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What are the tradeoffs (e.g. development speed, performance, scalability) between using various php frameworks, ruby/rails, or python/django?  Is there any reason to choose one overwhelmingly over another?

At this point, I’d argue that the decision between them comes down to programming language rather than framework—the frameworks have mostly converged on a very similar set of features.

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Why don’t more people use Google Web Toolkit for web development as opposed to scripting alternatives like JavaScript?

I’m morally opposed to GWT, because I don’t believe in building sites or applications that are entirely dependent on JavaScript to function. As someone who took the time to learn JavaScript, I’m also not at all convinced that Java is a more productive language.

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What is the highest traffic website built on top of Django?

My best guess would be Disqus. Instagram are pretty enormous these days as well.

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What is the history of the Django web framework? Why has it been described as “developed in a newsroom”?

I was there!

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