[jmstfv]

Rails.

Switched from Django two years ago and never looked back. Having worked with both, Rails is more polished and pleasant to work with.

Side note: if you're building a business and already know Python/Django, stick with them!

[hairofadog]

I just wanted to provide an alternate viewpoint; I also switched from Django to Rails, but much preferred Django. In my opinion the documentation is much better (the Rails documentation sites drive me bananas daily for both reasons of their content and UIs) and I very much appreciate the slow pace of changes to the framework.

I’m not disagreeing with you at all (as you’re expressing your valid opinion!) but wanted to leave a note to say Django is still great and still preferred for many of us. I also agree with you that it’s probably not worth switching if you’re already on one framework or the other; they both have their strengths and good communities.

[InsaneOstrich]

I swear I saw an article on here a few months ago about the decline of Rails

[rmoriz]

Someone needs to coin the term "mansion-shedding": Bikeshedding, but it's about the choice between two or more proven, reliable, working solutions.

[Chris2048]

I'd argue it's not the same thing. Bike-shedding happens over trivial, subjective things where any opinion is as valid, and hard to rebuke because of the subjectivity.

When it comes to arguing over large projects, the difficulty to rebuke comes not from subjectivity, or trivial-ism, but from the project being so complex there are few with the context/experience who can properly compare the two.

[montblanc]

There is tons of subjectivity in software development; people can't even agree when types are better than duck typing and vice versa. Even if there is some definite answer to all these questions we are not all ever going to agree on it in big numbers, so yes I think language framework wars can be called bikeshedding in most cases. Especially considering comparing Rails and Django is comparing two very very robust, "old" and proven solutions with about equal performance and feature set. Even the syntax is pretty similar. If one is objectively "better" it's not gonna be by much. It's not gonna matter at all to your average project which one you choose.

[midrus]

I love the fact that rails also provides a solution/opinion to the frontend part. Django sounds like nowadays can only be used for backend.