[andybak]

I used Django from pretty much it's first public release and it was broadly feature complete back then.

[StavrosK]

The ecosystem between then and now is night and day, though, and that's an extremely important part of a framework.

[strogonoff]

In case of Django, I actually don’t feel much difference in this regard—it’s always been very much batteries included. It is natural for a project to have no dependencies but Django (and maybe psycopg2 bindings), business domain-specific dependencies excluded. Happily used it since before the first major release.

[eli]

It had been in production use for a while prior to its public release, yeah?

[steveklabnik]

IIRC, it was (like Rails) extracted from an existing web application.

[andybak]

Yes. I believe it was spun out of an internal project at Lawrence Journal-World.