[Keats]

I haven't used Elixir yet and mostly using flask in Python for work but I started with Django (and still think it's better than flask for most apps). If stuff like https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy (first thing I've found on google, never heard of it before) is on par with the Django admin, would you still use Django or Elixir and never look back?

[ralmidani]

I don’t know if I would “never look back” to Django (I’m a sentimental person). But admin is one aspect, the other big one is auth. I also like DTL better than EEx/HEEx. And all the pieces of Django just fit together really nicely; where Ecto happens to be the preferred way to interact with a database from Elixir, and Phoenix happens to be the preferred way to build Web apps using Elixir, (maybe with Ash layered on top), they weren’t designed by the same people, so you have packages like ecto_phoenix, ash_phoenix, etc. to make them all play together in an elegant way.

I will admit, Elixir and Phoenix have better real-time and scalability stories.

If I had a choice I would probably prefer Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView when joining an org to work on an established codebase that may have actual scalability needs and concerns. But I would probably prefer Django when starting from scratch.