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So a lot of the scalability complaints arise from the fact it's written in Python, but as far as I can tell they're largely newer developers trying to grow some web app they made rather than people presenting at PyCon about why it's awful. Fortunately I am not trying to bootstrap a business from this thread, but I agree that it's far better to spend a few weeks getting my hands dirty with some framework or language that I'm familiar with than just reading about all the cool things I can do in some other language or framework that I need to still learn.