Advantages and differences with Django

[Gleb Svechnikov]

Hi I would like to discuss and understand main differences and advantages between Django and GAE framework.

Native GAE allows to create anything but from scratch, using different google API such as Users API, Google Datastore and many other. It gives a lot of options and freedom in development but also makes you write lots of code and spend lots of time for planning.

So I've started looking for some Frameworks.

As I understand GAE framework have MVC and API for making Forms, Messages, Blogs, Forums. Same functions and even more Django allows. Django was build for news-sites de-facto it used for many other proposes. 

What the main difference GAE framework with Django. And what GAE framework against Django?

[Anton Danilchenko]

Hi Gleb!

When I started building GAE framework I have not found good solution to build website based on pluggable applications. And Django was not compatible with GAE in 2010.

Now, we have ability to run Django projects on GAE with Google Gloud SQL service. But this is very expensive.

I have switched to Django to make projects more faster and make money. Because I have not found investitions to this Open Source project.

Now I have deep into Django and build projects on this framework. But also I have build new projects and support my old projects on GAE. But my main framework is Django with regular hosting (not GAE).

Now I have not planned to invest my resources to improve GAE framework in near future.

Regards, Anton.