> Rails is far too much bloat to just be serving JSON (benchmarks show that sinatra is 4-8x faster...)
Does it matter 1 bit? If you can't demonstrate that it does, you might as well choose the framework with the best mascot and Django's mascot is pretty damn awesome.
In addition, I would say the mentality of scalability when constructing applications is part and parcel of the design ideology of ruby, but too often far removed from its practice.
I see no reason to prefer Rails API. It is a reverse-frankenstein situation whereby they had the monster, and started removing limbs...
What? I legitimately did not understand what you just said.
Django, similarly to rails, has far too much bloat and is tediously layed out. An entire rant aside, Django is becoming increasingly unpythonic and more rubylike, imo.
Does it matter 1 bit? If you can't demonstrate that it does, you might as well choose the framework with the best mascot and Django's mascot is pretty damn awesome.