[drewjaja]

We migrated from Drupal to Django a few years ago and haven't been happier. Sites have become easier to maintain, new features are developed faster and designers find Django templates easier to work with.

We found Drupal's hooking system a pain to work with and it made debugging incredibly difficult.

We were using Drupal 6 at the time, not sure what has improved since then.

[ajsalminen]

Hooks are going away in favor of a fully object-oriented architecture. Some hooks remain in Drupal 8, but they'll get replaced in time. It also uses a templating system called Twig that is similar to Django's.