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Django vs Perl

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Overview

Django
Django
Stacks38.7K
Followers34.8K
Votes4.2K
GitHub Stars85.6K
Forks33.2K
Perl
Perl
Stacks4.3K
Followers935
Votes575
GitHub Stars2.2K
Forks602

Django vs Perl: What are the differences?

What is Django? The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

What is Perl? Highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 26 years of development. Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

Django can be classified as a tool in the "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category, while Perl is grouped under "Languages".

"Rapid development", "Open source" and "Great community" are the key factors why developers consider Django; whereas "Lots of libraries", "Open source" and "Text processing" are the primary reasons why Perl is favored.

Django and Perl are both open source tools. It seems that Django with 42.3K GitHub stars and 18.2K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Perl with 428 GitHub stars and 150 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Django has a broader approval, being mentioned in 979 company stacks & 882 developers stacks; compared to Perl, which is listed in 132 company stacks and 61 developer stacks.

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Advice on Django, Perl

Felipe
Felipe

May 24, 2020

Decided

Since I came from python I had two choices: #django or #flask. It felt like it was a better idea to go for #django considering I was building a blogging platform, this is kind of what #django was made for. On the other hand, #rails seems to be a fantastic framework to get things done. Although I do not regret any of my time spent on developing with #django I want to give @{#rails}|topic:null| a try some day in the future for the sake of curiosity.

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Sandeep
Sandeep

Jun 13, 2020

Needs adviceonPythonPythonJavaScriptJavaScriptJinjaJinja

I have learned both Python and JavaScript. I also tried my hand at Django. But i found it difficult to work with Django, on frontend its Jinja format is very confusing and limited. I have not tried Node.js yet and unsure which tool to go ahead with. I want an internship as soon as possible so please answer keeping that in mind.

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Ing. Alvaro
Ing. Alvaro

Software Systems Engineer at Ripio

May 21, 2020

Decided

Decided to change all my stack to microsoft technologies for they behave just great together. It is very easy to set up and deploy projects using visual studio and azure. Visual studio is also an amazing IDE, if not the best, when used for C#, it allows you to work in every aspect of your software.

Visual studio templates for ASP.NET MVC are the best I've found compared to django, rails, laravel, and others.

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Detailed Comparison

Django
Django
Perl
Perl

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
85.6K
GitHub Stars
2.2K
GitHub Forks
33.2K
GitHub Forks
602
Stacks
38.7K
Stacks
4.3K
Followers
34.8K
Followers
935
Votes
4.2K
Votes
575
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 678
    Rapid development
  • 488
    Open source
  • 426
    Great community
  • 380
    Easy to learn
  • 277
    Mvc
Cons
  • 26
    Underpowered templating
  • 22
    Underpowered ORM
  • 22
    Autoreload restarts whole server
  • 15
    URL dispatcher ignores HTTP method
  • 10
    Internal subcomponents coupling
Pros
  • 72
    Lots of libraries
  • 66
    Open source
  • 61
    Text processing
  • 54
    Powerful
  • 49
    Unix-style
Cons
  • 4
    Messy $/@/% syntax
  • 3
    No exception handling
  • 2
    No OS threads
  • 2
    "1;"
  • 2
    Bad OO support
Integrations
Python
Python
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What are some alternatives to Django, Perl?

Node.js

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Rails

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

PHP

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Ruby

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Laravel

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Java

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Golang

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

HTML5

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

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