Building a startup with a small team, how to decide between using Pyramid (or possibly Django) or Ruby?
This may be an impossible question to answer and I'm probably asking on a biased list. I've worked a lot before on Pyramid and generally like it. It was fast and very flexible, but missing some things (Django's admin...). The missing things though are usually the key to Pyramid's flexiblity. There also seems to be some cruft left over from repoze and other stuff that seem out of place and ugly in the elegant Pyramid world. I've never written any Ruby or RoR other than trivial tutorial code, but it seems fine and just as sufficient as Pyramid. I do slightly prefer Python language syntax, but I can get over that. My main concern is working with a framework that has a great online community and actively moving forward and has lots of experienced developers to hire from. When I look at Google and Github trends and look at StackOverflow tags, RoR overwhelmingly beats Pyramid. I think this is due to Python being so fractured. Many competing frameworks (Django, Pyramid, Flask, Bottle, etc, etc) probably lower Pyramid's trend and tag levels. Django certainly dominates Python web frameworks. In Github I still see lots of active commits to Pyramid. But I'm a bit concerned, and I can speak personally on this...most of the most big name, active Pyramid contributers seemed to have disappeared from answering questions on StackOverflow. I guess I'm trying to get a solid handle on the current state and progress of Pyramid. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Is it time to slide over to Django or make the jump to RoR? I have a personal preference for Pyramid because of positive past experiences with it and lack of experience with other frameworks. But this isn't about me. This is about building out a startup company quickly and being able to attract experienced talent with the decided on technologies. Apologies for the long-winded, open-ended question, but I would appreciate any responses that can give me a 'heartbeat' on the current Pyramid state of the union. Many thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
