Django Rest framework was not always great :) .. In fact, nowadays I prefer to use one called Django Restless.<p>My argument is just that REST is not the type of problem that should warrant having three competing libraries (see comment above).. It has been pretty fundamental to the way you build modern apps ever since SPAs became a big thing.<p>To think that Rails got many of these things right-ish in version 1.2 which was released in 2007 is pretty damn impressive and speaks volumes about the technical clairvoyance of the ruby&#x2F;rails community.