Django

Key corporate backers (Google TensorFlow, Microsoft PyTorch) shifted to competing languages/frameworks. Maintainer burnout led to stalled updates (Django), abandoned libraries, and forced teams to maintain forks or rewrite codebases.

Migrating from Flask or Django to FastAPI requires replacing familiar tools: `requests` must be replaced with `httpx` for async operations, Django REST Framework serializers must become Pydantic models, and the async paradigm shift is non-trivial. FastAPI lacks the built-in ORM and admin panel developers relied on.

Clerk SDKs are primarily available for SPA frameworks, with limited or unclear support for backend languages like Python and Django, as well as limited integration with platforms like Slack.