[topstriker515]

My standard tool for quickly spinning up a web app is Rails, but recently I've been writing a lot of python for data projects and I'm thinking about spending some time learning Django. Rails development seems to be going strong though and has me a little worried. Can anyone speak to Django development and its ecosystem in 2018?

[paulhallett]

Django in 2018 is still a very vibrant and active community. The project is actively developed, there is a lot of sponsorship from big companies (instagram etc) funding a dedicated fellow who's job is to work on Django full-time.

The plugin ecosystem is very rich and active too - almost always a pre-made package for some feature or implementation you want to add to Django.