Why Jinja is not Django and why Django should have a look at it

Today I wrote a little Django to Jinja2 template converter. While it can translate most of the builtin template tags into Jinja constructs it doesn’t fully automate the process because you have to extend it for your own custom tags and it doesn’t adapt your templates to the changed semantics. And these differences in semantics (and the underlying architecture) are something I want to discuss a bit here.

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