Freeing myself of WordPress
I wanted to simplify everything. I wanted to write posts in Markdown, not HTML. I wanted to save posts as files, not database entries. I wanted to free myself of my dependence on WordPress, PHP, and MySQL in one fell swoop.
So, Mango was born. Mango is file-based blogging software built on Django, the excellent Python web framework. I conceived Mango to scratch an itch, and I'll bet that others out there are itchy, too.