[bayesianhorse]

I don't see anything "in the pipeline" which would be able to compete with Django in its core domain. Not even Rails, whose main advantage over Django are larger adoption and some better tooling (IMHO).

Certainly not Node.js. The tooling isn't there yet, the javascript language is still a barrier for maintainable code and the asynchronous model as a default comes with very high complexity costs.

Play requires Scala, and I just don't see typical web folks switch to Scala (an otherwise great language) in droves.

Clojure? Really? Yes, Lisp is great. But it's not going to get popular in 2 years and it seems to require some intellectual fortitude that is probably harder to find on the job market than Django talent.