I've been writing software for about 12 years. I remember the buzz around Ruby on Rails when it came out. It made websites faster and easier to build. I even interviewed DHH, the author of Rails, for a podcast. He was a rockstar in the development community, and I felt really excited to meet him.
At the time, the web was in a gold rush period. Investment was being plowed into Web 2.0, and the frameworks which supported it were heavily discussed.
A few years later, I moved over to Python, and started using Django. It's similar to Rails, and has an equally high profile.
I've been using Django for about 10 years now. During that time it has been constantly improved, to the point where the feature set is mind boggling (the ORM alone is enormous).
Whenever people move to a different language, one of the first questions they ask is "What's the Django of X?". I did this when I first used Golang, Javascript, and Swift on the server.
The answer is usually something similar, but with substantially less depth.
This isn't to criticize other web framework authors, it just got me thinking - will there ever be the impetus again to build something like Django? Or was it just a product of its time?
I certainly hope there will be challengers. But for now, if I just want to get shit done, then Python and Django are still really hard to beat.