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Juan Benito

Hi Alexandre,

Thanks for your comment, I think you have missed the goal of the article.

Hoewer I said I wanted to share my frustation using Django, actually the goal is helping other people who choose django to be careful with the features they use, that features might be harmful in the long term.

I didn't say the rest of the frameworks are pefect, not even close. Everyone has their own issues. Hoewer every framework have issues, many of them try to separate the different layers of your applications consistently. When you isolate the main layers (Representation - Business - Database), your database changes don't need to affect your business logic, even you can change the representation of you data without affecting your business or the Database. For example, you can calculate the field you have just removed, and it won't affect your business logic.

Decoupling the main parts of your application will help you a lot. If you decouple them in a good way, you can modify each layer without affecting your whole application, and when you refactor some parts, you will be so greatful for that :).

A highly test coverage is not necessary good, the tests has to be mantained, when I commeted that part in the article, it is was not something good you need the tests, the tests help your project to be reliable, but the architecture should be the first line of trust.

As you said every tool have their own flaws, I only wanted to show the django issues for the people who is doing any project.

I recommend Clean Architecture (from Robert C Martin), if you have not read it yet. The book shows why it is important keeping the differnt application layers isolated.

We agree about knowing the tools is one of the main points, this article try to help other people to understand better these tools.

Thank again for your comment!