Background As part of my ongoing project to reimplement Django’s templating language in Rust, I have been adding support for custom template tags. Simple tags The simplest custom tag will look something like: # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template.Library() @register.simple_tag def time(format_string): now = datetime.now() return now.strftime(format_string) # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template.Library() @register.simple_tag def current_time(format_string): return datetime.now().strftime(format_string)

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As of today (well, technically yesterday), django.tasks is officially released upon the world! Mostly. <note> Note that django.tasks and django-tasks are in fact different, albeit by a single character. Take care when reading. </note> What happened? As of today, the first PR to implement DEP 14 ("Background workers") has been…

I think this is great @adamghill ! Already it’s definitely an upgrade over the existing one, which is old, so nothing against its design that has held up for so long. I really like how you have a quick start on there to emphasize how quick it is to get started. I think I’m probably too close to this, since I worked with @carltongibson and @pauloxnet to help with the 20tab work @jacobian mentioned, but I’ll just add here my own list of things to consider, as well: Sponsor logos vs companies us...

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