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Django is an open source web development framework that was initially released in 2005, around the same time as Ruby on Rails. In many ways, the two frameworks are similar – they expedited web development by modularizing common components of web apps and enabling developers to quickly prototype and launch their products. They both encouraged the use of the MVC architectural pattern, with each respectively acting as the controller, allowing developers to use their own front end and database technologies.

But the path of the two frameworks diverged in other parameters, including mainstream adoption. Ruby on Rails became the sweetheart in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, while Django was loved by a core constituency of pythonistas who had used Python in other applications and fallen in love with it. At the peak of the frameworks’ popularity, there was a common question from new developers asking whether they should first learn Django or Rails – the answer often boiled down to whether you wanted to use Python or Ruby. In this episode, Frank discusses the history and growth of Django, and explains how it evolved in comparison with other frameworks.

Frank Wiles is the President of the Django Software Foundation, and partner at Revolution Systems. He worked at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, where Django was initially conceived and created.

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Ruby on Rails is a web app framework released 10 years ago that influenced the way websites were being built. Rails skyrocketed to popularity in the late 2000’s and empowered many small companies to quickly build and maintain robust web apps.

While it is still a mainstay in web development, it has been overshadowed as of late by JavaScript, and Node.js on the backend. David joins Software Engineering Daily to discuss how Ruby on Rails has evolved to keep up with newer programming paradigms and why it is still an excellent choice to build web apps with nowadays.

David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails and a partner at Basecamp. Rails was extracted from the work done at Basecamp, and open-sourced for the public to commit to and use for their applications.

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Marty Haught is a director of Ruby Central, a nonprofit dedicated to the support and advocacy of the worldwide ruby community. Ruby Central also hosts the RubyConf and RailsConf software conferences.

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Michael Hartl is the author of The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, a widely acclaimed guide to learning how to build Ruby on Rails webapps.

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Kitematic is an open source project built to simplify and streamline using Docker on a Mac or Windows machine. It allows users to get up and running on Docker with a single click, and provides a user interface that makes running and managing Docker files easy. Kitematic was acquired by Docker in March 2015.

Sean Li is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Kitematic. He is now working on product design and developer experience at Docker.

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Michael Hausenblas is a developer and cloud advocate with Mesosphere, which builds the Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), a distributed OS that uses Apache Mesos as its kernel.

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Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio.

Jon Sneyers is one of the core contributors to FLIF.

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Caml is a functional programming language that is a dialect of the ML programming language family, developed at INRIA and formerly at ENS.

Gérard Huet is a senior researcher at INRIA, the French Institute for Research and Automation. He helped develop the Caml programming language in the 80s, and has a variety of other accomplishments in the world of computer science, including developing the Coq Proof Assistant System.

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Racket is a functional programming language similar to Lisp and Scheme.

Matthew Flatt is a member of the Racket core development team and also a professor of computer science at the University of Utah.

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