(original premise): you say that it's very bad that you have to use an rdb for admin
...but it's not what I said; this is what I said...
"Django locks you into a RDBMS if you want to hook into all of Django's components like auth, admin, etc"
I'm not saying that it's bad that you have to use a relational database for auth, I'm saying that if you don't use a relational database and the ORM then you lose admin, auth, third-party apps, etc. Strip all of that out and what do you have left? See slide 71 (https://speakerdeck.com/u/kennethreitz/p/flasky-goodness).
The talk barely mentions that Django is just a popular choice, it is your completely disconnected analysis that he was complaining about Django's harvesting of the "python mindshare".
If you don't think that's at least the subtext of what the presentation was about, look at the slide for Kenneth's primary thesis: "Open Source Everything" (slide 10 - https://speakerdeck.com/u/kennethreitz/p/flasky-goodness). And then go through the presentation again to see what he means -- "Single Code Bases Are Evil" (slide 45).
The slide just says "open source everything". How you conceived that this in turn means "django has ingested the python community" is beyond me. Probably the same mental flaw that makes you a stalker. Why should I be replying to a stalker again?
(original premise): you say that it's very bad that you have to use an rdb for admin
...but it's not what I said; this is what I said...
"Django locks you into a RDBMS if you want to hook into all of Django's components like auth, admin, etc"
I'm not saying that it's bad that you have to use a relational database for auth, I'm saying that if you don't use a relational database and the ORM then you lose admin, auth, third-party apps, etc. Strip all of that out and what do you have left? See slide 71 (https://speakerdeck.com/u/kennethreitz/p/flasky-goodness).
And I have said this several times before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911275), so no, I am not trying to retrofit my argument.
The talk barely mentions that Django is just a popular choice, it is your completely disconnected analysis that he was complaining about Django's harvesting of the "python mindshare".
If you don't think that's at least the subtext of what the presentation was about, look at the slide for Kenneth's primary thesis: "Open Source Everything" (slide 10 - https://speakerdeck.com/u/kennethreitz/p/flasky-goodness). And then go through the presentation again to see what he means -- "Single Code Bases Are Evil" (slide 45).