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Happy 20th Birthday, Django

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578 points davepeck | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 18:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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mrcwinn ◴[14 Jul 25 13:08 UTC] No.44559774[source]▶
Not to conflate a framework and a language, but there’s something about Django that makes me feel like I’m writing PHP. What is this effect?
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simonw ◴[14 Jul 25 15:13 UTC] No.44561163[source]▶
When Adrian and I first designed Django we were PHP developers switching to Python, so quite a few Django pieces were inspired by PHP.

Django's request.GET and request.POST were directly influenced by $_GET and $_POST.

Django's template language included ideas from the Smarty PHP template language.

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nojs ◴[14 Jul 25 16:05 UTC] No.44561771[source]▶
This is surprising because the template language in particular feels so anti-PHP, it’s highly opinionated about not mixing code in with the template. I often wish it supported arbitrary Python.

Anyway, thank you Simon :)

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1. ashwinsundar ◴[15 Jul 25 04:13 UTC] No.44567764[source]▶
Custom tags and filters have been my escape hatches when the DTL is not taking me where I need to go.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/howto/custom-template-...