Need a compelling argument to use Django instead of Rails

[Ben Sizer]

Vincent Delporte wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2006 07:05:27 -0700, "Ben Sizer" <kylotan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Typically you run PHP as a module in your webserver, so there should be
> >no process startup overhead. mod_python provides the same sort of
> >functionality for Python, but is not as popular or widely installed as
> >the PHP Apache module.
>
> So, if mod_python provides the same functionality, it's not the main
> reason why Python developers use application servers while PHP users
> still program with page codes in /htdocs.
>
> Why do PHP users stick to that old way of things? Because they mostly
> use shared hosts, with no way to install their application server?

Yes, one reason is because they can't install anything other than web
pages. Not only can they not install a Python application server, they
can't install mod_python either, and few places will have it
pre-installed. Shared hosting accounts for a massive number of sites so
this is a significant issue.

Another perfectly good reason is that PHP pages are much simpler to
deploy than any given Python application server. Just add the code into
your HTML pages as required and you're done. Python could come close to
this if something like the Python Server Pages implementation in
mod_python was to become widely available and well known, but that
still requires overcoming the first problem.

-- 
Ben Sizer