Hacking for fun and profit

This will be a _very_short post.

Guido van Rossum is considering the use of Django (among other python web frameworks) to develop a project in Google. He is having some minor gripes with it:

• The templating language is not pythonic: This is IMHO a Good Thing. It enforces separation of code and presentation, and is an ideal way for designers to work directly in the templates (most designers are not programmers).
• Too much magic: Guido should check the Removing The Magic page in the wiki about the magic-removal branch. The branch is available in subversion in http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/magic-removal

Back to work now.

Update: Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote an excelent piece: why django.