Django
- Pronounced
- JANG-go (the D is silent)
Django is the best known framework for the Python programming language. Unlike popular content management systems such as WordPress or Drupal, Django is not meant for putting up a standard kind of site quickly. It is meant for building things that are more complex and more particular to one client.
The important practical difference is the language underneath. Django is written not in PHP, the most widespread language of the web, but in Python, which is generally considered the more rigorous and more modern of the two. That raises the bar both for the developers and for the hosting the finished site will live on.
Django tends to turn up in large projects — Instagram, Disqus, Mozilla, The Washington Times, Pinterest, YouTube and Google among them.