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PyCharm for Django Fundraiser: Why Django Matters in the AI Era – And Why We’re Supporting It

Spend a few minutes around developer content, and it’s easy to come away with the impression that web apps now appear to almost write themselves.

Everything that follows – review, verification, refactoring, debugging, and the open-source frameworks that make those apps dependable – gets less attention. AI can speed up code generation, but it does not remove the need for stable foundations. A lot of AI-generated code works because it’s built on top of mature open-source frameworks, libraries, and documentation. 

AI can scaffold a web app in thirty seconds. Django is what keeps it running for ten years. That gap is only getting more valuable.

Will Vincent, former Django Board Member, co-host of the Django Chat podcast and co-writer of the weekly Django News newsletter

As AI makes OSS easier to consume, it can also make the work behind it easier to overlook. But OSS still needs support – perhaps more than ever.

PyCharm for Django Fundraiser

PyCharm has supported Django through fundraising campaigns and ongoing collaboration with the Django Software Foundation (DSF). This year, we’re doing it again.

Together with the Django community, this campaign raised $350,000 for Django from 2016 to 2025. That support helps keep Django secure, stable, relevant, and sustainable, while also supporting community programs such as Django Girls and official events. Previous PyCharm fundraisers accounted for approximately 25% of the DSF budget, according to Django’s official blog.

Django is the rare framework that rewards you the longer you use it: mature, dependable, and still innovating. Best-in-class software, matched by one of the most welcoming communities in open source.

Will Vincent, former Django Board Member, co-host of the Django Chat podcast and co-writer of the weekly Django News newsletter

If Django has helped you learn, ship, or maintain real web products, this is a direct way to give back.

You can donate to the Django Software Foundation directly, or you can support Django through this fundraiser and get a tool you’ll rely on every day.

Django’s ‘batteries included’ philosophy was built for humans who wanted to ship fast. Turns out it’s perfect for AI agents too — fewer decisions, fewer dependencies, and fewer ways to go wrong.

Will Vincent, former Django Board Member, co-host of the Django Chat podcast and co-writer of the weekly Django News newsletter

The offer

During this campaign, get 30% off PyCharm Pro, with 100% of the proceeds going to the DSF. Or you can bundle PyCharm Pro with the JetBrains AI Pro plan and get 40% off PyCharm Pro.

This campaign ends in less than two weeks, so act now!

Why PyCharm Pro

Perfect for your workflow

The hard part of modern development is often not writing code from scratch – it’s understanding the whole project well enough to change it safely.

That’s where PyCharm Pro proves its value:

• Navigate and refactor across your entire Django project, from templates to databases.
• Work with databases without leaving the IDE.
• Build and debug Django templates with full awareness of your context. 
• Develop frontend code with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and major frameworks.
• Run and debug remote and Docker-based environments with ease

No editor understands Django like PyCharm does — from template tags to ORM queries to migrations, it sees the whole stack the way you do.

Will Vincent, former Django Board Member, co-host of the Django Chat podcast and co-writer of the weekly Django News newsletter

For Django work, I think PyCharm is one of the best tools available. I use it every day. If you haven’t given it a try, this campaign is a great opportunity – AND it supports the Django Software Foundation!

Sarah Boyce, Django Fellow and Djangonaut Space co-organizer

AI on your terms

If you want AI in PyCharm, you can start with JetBrains AI directly in the IDE. You can also shape it to fit your workflow. Bring your own key, sign in with a supported provider, use third-party or local models, or connect compatible agents such as Claude Code and Codex via ACP.

That gives you more control over how you work with AI, instead of locking you into a single workflow, model, or provider. And if AI isn’t what you need, you can simply turn it off.

Support the framework you use every day

If Django is part of how you build, this purchase can improve your workflow while also investing in the framework behind it.

Happy coding!