Django Pony – What were they thinking?

Alright, Cal dissed us Django Developers by comparing Django to „Flamework“, the Flicker Framework and finding that Django is definetely unsuitable for large large large scale productions like Twitter, Flicker, Yahoo or the like.

Alright, a point granted is that syncing models to the DB is uncomfortable, deployment is not yet all that great and the template syntax is akward. However, the demand for a mascot, like a Snake and/or Monty Python for Python, Dolphins for MySQL or the Road Sign for Bazaar, has turned the whole friendly Django world glittery pink.

A pony, to be more precise, THE Django Pony

http://djangopony.com/

is the result of this sarcastic comment. Also:

http://code.google.com/p/django-pony/

has sprung up in the aftermath of Django Con.

I implore all of the Django Community: Please, let’s abolish this devilish pony and open a discussion round for a real mascot – as we could use one indeed, but not PINK and not PONY. Or, if we were bound to stick with it, let us at least make it a unicorn, sit a python snake on top of it and call it the Django Unicorn of Death – DUD, and there we go, it would be almost as cool as Tux.

Habemus mascotum – or what else that might be called.