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I used to do Wordpress development and the short of it is, it wasn't profitable enough to be sustainable for me. These days, web development is more of a side gig for me and I'm no longer using Wordpress. I don't necessarily need to make a full-time income with it and I'm certainly not looking for high pressure, high stakes projects, but I was wondering where the best opportunities are for freelancers these days and what would be best skills/technologies to learn for those sorts of jobs?

Also, as a more specific side question, are things like Hugo and Jekyll much in demand these days as far as freelance goes?

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Is one of the other framework's you've used Django, and if so, how do they compare? I've never used Rails, but as far as I know, it's a similar concept, with batteries included and MVC architecture.

If there isn't anything else that makes it better, I would personally recommend something like Django just because it's Python, which isn't going anywhere anytime soon. If you are having issues with Python, the answer is pobably a google away, and if you want to do something other than webdev, it's more likely to be in Python (AI/ML, data science, etc. mainly), including if you want to integrate something into a website. As far as I'm aware, Ruby's pretty much only been used with Rails, and both are waning in popularity - as you say, you yourself have moved away.

That being said, I don't know Rails so that's all conjecture. If you tell me it's got something Django doesn't that makes it easier to use, I'll take that back.

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