[rglullis]

Template engines are already configurable and pluggable for quite a while.

The "problem" is that most of the third-party apps that want to provide templates end up using the default, so either you have to reimplement those or stick with the default engine.

[ensignavenger]

You can use both the Django Template Engine and other template engines side-by side in the same project. You can then write your custom templates in whatever you want, and have your third-party apps use whatever template engine they want to.

[rglullis]

My comment was more in the sense of wanting to extend third-party templates, but yeah, if you don't need to touch them you should be fine as well.