It's funny to call Django the "early web" when it first came out in 2005. That is really not early at all. Especially when you consider Rails, etc. predates that.

I was an early Python adopter (1995/1996) and could not for the life of me find anybody who would consider letting me use it in 'mainstream' commercial software projects. Then all the sudden about 10 years ago it exploded in popularity big time.

But I'd moved on to working on other things by then, I no longer enjoy writing in Python.

Wow, this sounds like the classic "I was into that band before they popular" indie snob, hah!