Nice.

I've been meaning to do my own Django post, on some other bits we take for granted - I should do it.

People should be using Django, the best parts are so useful you don't notice them until you switch platforms and implement them badly.

Every app that used a more narrow solution ultimately ends up implementing parts of Django badly.

The best way to solve this from Djangos side would be to have official ways of:

- Using the ORM outside of Django - Doing single file Django apps

Both of these have various 3rd party solutions, which shows demand.

In the past other bits of Django have been split off by 3rd parties but those two are the places to start.

Shout out to nanodjango, I researched all the single file options I could find some time ago and it had the best ergonomics imo. Not affiliated, just a fan.

https://nanodjango.dev/

I'm sure there must be a way to just set up enough of the Django environment to mangle about at objects in your models in a program. It's something I find myself using the Django shell often enough to want to do from outside there.