[jinglebells]

I like Go and Elixir from the minimalist approach but I've delivered so many projects recently by using Django and Django Rest Framework with a React front-end simply because you get ORM, Admin, form validation etc out of the box.

In a couple of days you can have a production-ready site and I've never seen anything quite like it for productivity.

[skrtskrt]

Yeah I think probably the biggest accelerating factor is out of the box user account & auth management. That gives you a huge leap from “hey my app works” to “I can literally deploy this to the public right now”.

The models and rest framework are convenient but you could probably do the same in close to the same amount of time in another language or framework.