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by luxphl 2322 days ago
We've been building a lot of content systems lately and found Wagtail to be pretty useful (https://wagtail.io/). We build pretty much everything on Django so it's a natural fit for us.

Understanding the models and the way they show up in the admin takes a bit but it's pretty smooth after that, and very programmable. And its built-in API uses DRF, so you can expand on it with that easily. Our frontends are all React-based and it works out very nicely.

Looking at this I kind of checked out once I saw Java, which I'm not inclined to deal with these days. To each their own of course.

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I like this specifically because it’s written in Java. To each their own indeed.
Completely fair! Just not the right tool for us & our work.
Java has the fastest Virtual Machine language on the market. In addition, it is possible to use GraalVM, which makes it possible to use several languages.

The Shiohara CMS currently uses Nashorn to create Javascript templates. But it is also compatible with GraalVM and we intend to add more languages supported by GraalVM to create templates.