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Because it’s twenty years old a crusty technology like Django is the fastest way to bootstrap something into production. Get yourself some engineers who are more interested in creating business impact than they are in sprucing up their resume.

Particularly after having seen some people talk about ORMs, the one that Django has is in class entirely of its own that makes most debates here irrelevant.

https://zachgoldstein.engineering/posts/crusty-knives/crusty-knives/

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Turborepo also has a well considered rationale about why they want to move to Rust. Go still has a relatively strong position on the server, but it’s weird design choices are ill-suited for client side tooling and file system work.

Ink & Switch is doing amazing work leveraging technology like CRDTs to create novel highly-interactive multiplayer interfaces. Here’s their work on Upswelling which is a git-like take on writing and editing.

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After having programmed Go for a bit professionally, my experiences in switching to Rust for the backend have been very similar to what’s described here by @adam_chal@hachyderm.io.