I am unapologetic about despising Ruby - Rails is pretty darn good, though. The Rails and Djangos of the programming worlds are critical for many teams that shouldn't be building their own frameworks from scratch (for any number of reasons).
Attempts are being made (https://loco.rs/) and time will tell if Rust can put together a compelling story for this use case.
There's no reason why Rust can't have its own Django. And the day it does I might switch to it for my new web development gigs. In the mean time having access to all my tools with a promise of stability and uniformity will beat the convenience of any one specific language.
Rust is well on the way to having a Rails/Django.
That said, here are a few examples:
- https://github.com/levkk/rwf
- https://tokio.rs/blog/2024-10-23-announcing-toasty (Tokio is beginning to assemble the pieces: Axum, Toasty, etc.)
I'd argue that the ability to do `python manage.py shell` and get an interactive ORM session for debugging is a fairly major reason why Rust can't have it's own Django.
I don't know if that's a good idea, but for much of what I personally used the django shell for (did this record get written the way I expected) it could help. Wouldn't help for situations where you want to monkeypatch the running app at runtime (but it's arguable whether you'd want to do that anyway).