Need a compelling argument to use Django instead of Rails

[John J. Lee]

"Ray" <ray_usenet at yahoo.com> writes:

> I just moved to another company that's mainly a Java/.NET shop. I was
> happy to find out that there's a movement from the grassroot to try to
> convince the boss to use a dynamic language for our development!
> 
> Two of the senior developers, however, are already rooting for Ruby on
> Rails--although they haven't tried RoR themselves. When I suggested
> Django, they went like, "what's that?".
> 
> I said, "It's like the Python counterpart of RoR".
> 
> "Nah, we're not interested in Python."
[...]

It's the herding instinct.  Hard to argue with that mindset.


John