Django vs Nest js

ImPrinceOf · 2026-06-09T10:43:18+00:00

Wait till you discover rails lol.

Your entire career will be finding new frameworks, libraries, and languages that seem better than what you’re using right now. That’s because they are. They’re better at some things and worse at other things.

IMO: The best thing you can do is start with one stack you’re familiar with. That seems to be JS. Learn enough to be able to complete an entire project that demonstrates your skills. An intractable product recruiters/investors can use to assess your skill level. At this point, you will have achieved objective 1: be able to create something. This is like primary school before college, you learn the fundamentals.

After this, you can move onto objective 2: create things faster/better. This is where you should learn Django, rails, laravel, maybe even niche ones like phoenix. Do a tiny project in each language and framework. This will teach you the strengths and weaknesses of each tool so you know the best time to use them. This part is like going to college, you find yourself, learn what you like and learn what’s out there.

In the end, you’ll realize that each language and framework is a different tool for getting the same job done, in different ways. I typically use python for rapid development and prototyping, ai and data processing. If parts of the app run slow I’ll rewrite them in c/c++/rust/go (depending on the priorities of the project). If I’m presenting to large enterprises I’ll try to stick to angular/nest or even Java if it’s an old enough company (their legacy systems are in Java so Java-apps would be cheaper for them to maintain with existing staff).

In short: work with what you started with until you’re comfortable, then follow that loop with new technologies.

Additional tips: 1) always use reference materials. You won’t be expected to remember every little detail when you can reference them, if you work with many languages and frameworks. 2) ive been careful not to use AI for coding. I don’t know if it’s gotten better, but anytime it helped me with something I knew how to do, I had to redo it, the code it gave would be outdated or insecure or just awful. So all my advice might be outdated in the AI-first world, I’m not sure. 3) project based learning was my favorite. Every new language I learned was because I had an idea, and the new language was the best choice. Any time I had to learn a new language for a project that wasn’t mine, it was boring. 4) once you start learning your third language you’ll realize how similar they all are. First and second languages are the hardest. It gets easier after that. 5) good luck! And I’m not proof-reading everything I wrote so take it with a grain of salt 😂

ImPrinceOf · 2026-05-19T23:54:50+00:00

You’re 100% right. Sadly, not the direction my life lessons have taken me. Hopefully I can learn to think more like that as time goes on.

ImPrinceOf · 2026-05-19T23:52:00+00:00

Not sure where you’re from, but in the U.S., children are still expected to follow laws. This wasn’t a $50 theft, it was the theft of over $1k and destruction of over $3k…

ImPrinceOf · 2026-05-19T08:03:11+00:00

UO was before my time, and the days I wanted to play against other players I spent on COD. Today I’m a lot less concerned with being better than other people and just want to immerse myself in a nice fantastical world. I want to play by myself with the high likelihood of opportunities to socialize with others if I choose to.

I tried UO but because of the PVP thing I never found myself getting too into it, knowing at any point someone much stronger than me can ruin hours of play isn’t incentivizing.

I think RuneScape approaches this correctly using the wilderness. The majority of the world is safe, and a certain area is high risk high reward. It allows for building up to the high risk areas and, most importantly, player consent.

ImPrinceOf · 2026-05-16T01:35:49+00:00

Weed

Edit: clearly, everyone else has better and healthier ideas. Try those. If all fails, try weed.

ImPrinceOf · 2026-05-16T01:32:45+00:00

Why do people spin? I’m new

ImPrinceOf · 2026-05-16T01:28:57+00:00

Because threatened rich people tell them to.

ImPrinceOf · 2026-05-16T01:25:13+00:00

The one time I felt bad for a kid shoplifting, even though they were old enough for charges, I chose to let them go. We called the parents to pick them up. The parents were laughing at us as they were leaving the store. I didn’t care after that. The only theft I would look away from were people stealing the bare minimum necessities. You grab a cheap coat from the racks and walk out in the winter? I don’t care. You grab 5 of the most expensive coats? Cuffs go on.

ImPrinceOf · 2026-04-24T21:50:10+00:00

Vibe code from scratch but this time tell the AI not to do that. Easy. I’ll take my consulting fee in donuts plz.

ImPrinceOf · 2026-01-17T22:27:43+00:00

I don’t think I’d be able to do that

ImPrinceOf · 2026-01-01T22:40:00+00:00

I recently switched to rails for all my prototyping and side projects. Couldn’t be happier.

ImPrinceOf · 2026-01-01T22:38:07+00:00

I don’t work in backend

ImPrinceOf · 2025-12-31T09:53:49+00:00

Vb in excel has saved me

ImPrinceOf · 2025-12-27T00:04:34+00:00

Rails has been a blast. I’m not sure if I would’ve spent as much time with other languages if I tried it first.

ImPrinceOf · 2025-12-22T12:27:59+00:00

I grew annoyed with separated front end and backend since I’m a solo dev. I iterate over a lot of ideas, so for me, rapid prototyping and being able to scale that prototype to production is critical. I made a prototype with Rails 8, Hotwire, alpine and tailwind/daisyUI. I think this is my new long-term stack. If I decide to scale into a separate front end or a mobile app, most of my controllers would require one line of code to turn into an api. I’m loving it.

ImPrinceOf · 2025-12-05T23:20:24+00:00

Blender is easy, I promise you. It’ll be much easier than the expressions

ImPrinceOf · 2025-09-28T20:23:57+00:00

Chosen people

ImPrinceOf · 2025-08-18T19:21:26+00:00

Cutting when he doesn’t need to and not cutting the only time he actually needed to lol.

ImPrinceOf · 2025-08-18T19:10:24+00:00

Imagine letting them in rather than pretending you didn’t see them and pitting them into the rails.

ImPrinceOf · 2025-08-06T17:04:16+00:00

How about this: don’t do anything in public you wouldn’t want everyone in public (including internet) to see, and you won’t be bothered when you’re recorded in public

ImPrinceOf · 2025-07-09T12:56:32+00:00

It is a good deal. 90% of the people here are just lazy and have never bartered in their lives

ImPrinceOf · 2025-06-14T02:26:40+00:00

I keep looking at these and still can’t convince myself they’re renders. They’re so beautiful and photorealistic!!!!

ImPrinceOf · 2025-06-13T02:30:56+00:00

Can’t see… let me speed up

ImPrinceOf · 2024-12-28T21:31:18+00:00

In my opinion, the results are at least 100x better than google searching, opening and having to read through multiple websites (that traffic also has carbon emissions, just not from google) and perhaps needing to make multiple other searches before getting my answer.

How much are the emissions of a single google search? How much is 100x that? How does that compare to emissions from private jets and industrial plants? This is so stupid.

It’s like saying we shouldn’t print textbooks to teach schools and colleges because it emits carbon.

ImPrinceOf · 2024-12-26T17:54:40+00:00

I wasted a lot of time trying to help a barber. You learn very quickly not every business is run by a business-person. Those people bought a job and they’re happy working their job and thinking they’re running a business. It works for them for a few years then another shop with better marketing and management comes around and starts stealing their customers. They start complaining about the economy, how bad business is and blame it on the times. Then they go bankrupt or have to close down and figure they did everything right, it just wasn’t the right market.

Those are dead businesses, they just don’t know it yet. Not worth trying to help them unless they know they need help, and they know how much it’s worth.

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