Keynote: Why Django sucks and how we can fix it

By Eric Florenzano

Apps

Making custom changes to an app and now staying in trunk fails. Apps that provide models are inherently inflexible. primary key assumptions

Class based views to the rescue?

  • No consensus on how to implement it?
  • Where do you put customized view subclasses?
  • urls.py is already overloaded

Generic Foreign Keys

  • good for flexibility
  • Bad for configuration

Performance

  • Things are slowing down
  • Memory usage is going up in each version since 1.0
  • performance is going down since 1.0

Django Core

  • Closed and very private
  • Why isn’t Alex Gaynor not a core developer?
  • Why isn’t there a truncatechars filter?

Badteries

  • DataBrowse is a joke
  • lorem ipsum doesn’t belong
  • Need to move to a DVCS

django.contrib.auth

  • django.contrib.auth is inflexible
  • first_name, last_name is culturally limited
  • Admin is couple to user
  • Integer primary gey
  • get_profile is inelegant
  • no way to use secure key