Jinja2 provides certain advantages over the native system of Django, for example, explicit calls to callable from templates, has better performance and has a plugin system

Features:

* Auto-load templatetags compatible with Jinja2 on same way as Django.
* Django templates can coexist with Jinja2 templates without any problems.
It works as middleware, intercepts Jinja templates by file path pattern.
* Django template filters and tags can mostly be used in Jinja2 templates.
* I18n subsystem adapted for Jinja2 (makemessages now collects messages
from Jinja templates)
* Compatible with python2 and python3 using same codebase.
* jinja2 bytecode cache adapted for use django cache subsystem.