I recently used the documentations of both Django and RoR to build initial small projects for both in order to get a feel for each of these two monoliths. However, Ruby on Rails seems to have some extremely solid references including Airbnb, Twitch and others, why hasn't Django been updated to showcase, for example, how OpenSea uses Django for their marketplace? For such a reference-driven person like me, even when everything points for me personally to continue learning Django, this lack of references is putting me off. What are your thoughts on this?
The better question is why does RoR have references? The answer being that it is lead by a BDFL who is a showman and marketer. That is instilled into the RoR community, and why its homepage is a marketing site.<p>Django has always be slightly more understated in how it presents itself, and that also comes through it is community.<p>Neither approach is better than the other, they are just different.
Are you talking about something in the official documentation that says, "Here are big companies built with Django"?<p>That kind of page really needs to be kept up to date on a regular basis, by someone who cares to keep track of that kind of information. Most people who help maintain Django care more to spend their time building and maintaining the project than keeping up with what specific companies are doing. It also brings in a lot of potential conflict around implied endorsements, or associations. I'm quite happy not to sea anything associated with NFTs on official Django sites.<p>If you're curious to know where Django is used, it's not hard to search. Here's a recent post about popular sites that were started on Django, and there are many more posts similar to this: <a href="https://djangostars.com/blog/10-popular-sites-made-on-django/" rel="nofollow">https://djangostars.com/blog/10-popular-sites-made-on-django...</a>
Not an exact answer to your question, but there are many projects and companies that use django. One site that highlights it is "Built with Django" [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://builtwithdjango.com" rel="nofollow">https://builtwithdjango.com</a>
Because our industry is largely driven by trends, and as somebody already wrote, "it [RoR, ndr] is lead by a BDFL who is a showman and marketer. That is instilled into the RoR community, and why its homepage is a marketing site".
IMO, the design difference between Ruby and Python sites have a lot to do with the people involved. David Heinemeier Hansson's early design and marketing sensibilities and effort on Rails initially IMO had a lot of influence on the entire Rails ecosystem. I don't know if he's still involved in designing the RoR site or not, but it still looks and feels like his work. For all of Guido van Rossum's great ideas and skills, I don't think he ever cared about design and marketing to that same extent as DHH did.