I agree with you. I've wrote very big web applications in Rails, Django, and Java/Spring.
I understand the argument for things being "explicit" in Python, but then I just prefer Java if I'm going to be very verbose about what I want (I'm only talking about backend APIs here). It's just my opinion that whether explicit is good or not depends on the level of abstraction we're interested in, and I don't believe that explicit is always good. (I like the concept of meta-algorithms, for example)
But if there's a one-person project that needs to be scaled quickly, I prefer Rails. (The article mentions how Django makes model fields explicit in the models file, but doesn't talk about schema.rb in Rails which doesn't require you to view each migration to know how the database looks.)
Yes, big projects in any language can get messy, but that's a software engineering problem, not a framework problem.
I recently wrote a FastAPI project that was db-driven, with all the necessary test cases, etc. The amount of lines it took to express the controller, the schemas and models separately, the dependencies for auth and stuff, and especially elaborate test cases was pretty substantial. Yeah, the code was all explicit, but it was not enjoyable.
I understand the argument for things being "explicit" in Python, but then I just prefer Java if I'm going to be very verbose about what I want (I'm only talking about backend APIs here). It's just my opinion that whether explicit is good or not depends on the level of abstraction we're interested in, and I don't believe that explicit is always good. (I like the concept of meta-algorithms, for example)
But if there's a one-person project that needs to be scaled quickly, I prefer Rails. (The article mentions how Django makes model fields explicit in the models file, but doesn't talk about schema.rb in Rails which doesn't require you to view each migration to know how the database looks.)
Yes, big projects in any language can get messy, but that's a software engineering problem, not a framework problem.
I recently wrote a FastAPI project that was db-driven, with all the necessary test cases, etc. The amount of lines it took to express the controller, the schemas and models separately, the dependencies for auth and stuff, and especially elaborate test cases was pretty substantial. Yeah, the code was all explicit, but it was not enjoyable.