Supported versions: Django vs. FastAPI vs. Laravel
Posted by thibaudcolas@reddit | Python | View on Reddit | 2 comments
Full article with 📈 graphs: Supported versions: Django vs. FastAPI vs. Laravel. I thought it’d be interesting to compare how different frameworks define what versions they support. As of today,
- 75% of Django downloads are for a supported version (Django 5.1, 5.0, 4.2 LTS)
- 34% of downloads are the latest version (Django 5.1)
- For FastAPI, 65% of downloads for the latest (and only supported?) version.
- 52% of downloads are for a supported Laravel version (Laravel 12 and 11)
- 16% are for the latest version (released a few weeks ago, makes sense).
To be clear I don’t think there’s a right answer to how much support to provide – but for Wagtail, it’d certainly be more of a wild ride if we were built on FastAPI (about 100 releases with potentially breaking changes over the same time that Django has had – 10).
djerro6635381@reddit
FastAPI has a severely flawed governance system, as in it has none. Don’t take it lightly before you use it in serious production systems.
dusktreader@reddit
It's worth noting that FastAPI is still on major version 0. This, any minor release can have breaking changes. If you use FastAPI, you should absolutely pin the minor version and do a lot of testing before you upgrade to latest.
https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/deployment/versions/