It occurred to me that Django's ORM could do with a bit of a revamp to make use of recent developments in the Python language.

The main area where I think Django's models are missing out is the lack of type hinting (hardly surprising since Django pre-dates type hints). Adding type hints allows Mypy to detect bugs before you even run your code. It may only save you minutes each time, but multiply that by the number of code + run iterations you do each day, and it can save hours of development time. Multiply that by the lifetime of your project, and it could save weeks or months. A clear win. continue reading…