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<h1>Troggle in 2025-2030</h1>
<h2>5-Year Plan</h2>
<p>[Philip Sargent, 1 June 2020. Async updates 21 April 2021]
<p>[Philip Sargent, 1 June 2020. Async updates 21 April 2021, HTMX updates 28 Feb.2024]
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<li>I reckon django has at least another 4-5 years left as a very active project (~2025) and at least a decade or so as a well-maintained project.
<li>I reckon python has another 10-20 years at least.
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<p>In 2024 it now looks as if we may be able to stretch the current architecture into a <a href="trogspeculate.html#frontends">post-Javascript</a> era entirely because Webassembly <a href="https://thenewstack.io/webassembly-4-predictions-for-2024/">continues to develop rapidly</a>.
<p>HTMX now looks like it may evolve into replacing large chunks of what is now done with JavaScript packages (Angular, React, Vue.. and jQuery before them). See <a href="https://testdriven.io/blog/drf-vue-vs-django-htmx/">Django/HTMX</a> article (5 Feb.2024).
<h3>Postscript</h3>
<p>Andy Waddington, who wrote the first expo website in 1996, mentioned that he could never get the hang of Django at all, and working with SQL databases would require some serious book-revision: