Take Two: If I got to do it all over again

A Talk presented by Alex Gaynor
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Audience level

Intermediate

Category

Django Internals

Time

September 4th, 10:15 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.

Description

Django has always had a strong commitment to backwards compatibility, and is used by thousands of developers every day. This means that it's very difficult to make large sweeping changes to Django. This talk is a look at how I'd redesign different components of Django, if I got to do it all over again.

Abstract

This talk has two parts.

First, identifying the principles we're trying to adhere to, and the problems we're trying to solve by re-imagining every single API.

Second, looking at specific changes to individual APIs.