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		crucialfelix on Oct 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using a framework will harm the maintenance of you... Django is definitely a framework. Its not just Django that locks you in, it's all the third party apps people end up adding. All these integrate tightly with Django. They often block upgrades as they have different python and Django version requirements.

sgt on Oct 13, 2022 [–]

But that is also (or can be) an anti-pattern. Don't just blindly add dependencies - there are so many risks involved with that. Of course that is not unique to just frameworks like Django and Rails, but any piece of growing software.

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