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 the 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) * jinja2 bytecode cache adapted for using django's cache subsystem. * Support for django context processors.