Actually, I remember some years back that when I needed a REST API for a project I started with django-tastypie because back then (circa 2012) was more popular than DRF. Unfortunately, I did not have a good experience with it (too long to release a new version to support new django version) so I switched over to DRF and hasn't look back since.
I'm not really familiar with the status of django-tastypie right now but from what I see from the other comments it probably is better than tastypie.
Also please notice that I wanted to include one of each kind of package in the list since it's the actual list of packages I'm going to use when I need a feature - so there's no reason to include both DRF and tastypie (yes, django-simple-history and django-reversion were both included but as I explain in the article they have different usage models).
I'm not really familiar with the status of django-tastypie right now but from what I see from the other comments it probably is better than tastypie.
Also please notice that I wanted to include one of each kind of package in the list since it's the actual list of packages I'm going to use when I need a feature - so there's no reason to include both DRF and tastypie (yes, django-simple-history and django-reversion were both included but as I explain in the article they have different usage models).