On Nov 23, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Simon Willison wrote:
He's right too - the hoops you have to jump through changing schema with Django do slow you down if you haven't figured out your full data model in advance.
Wow, so developing applications without a good design up-front is difficult? Who knew?
Seriously, folks, ease of getting started makes for good demonstrations and certainly sucks in the n00bs, but I'll take ease of getting *finished* any day. I'm sure anyone who's developed in Java has hit that wall at about 90% completion where you realize that this cool project you've gotten so far on is going to be impossible to finish because of some core limitation of the language.
Jacob