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Re: Ask HN: Best Web Language to Learn

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Post by charlesmarshall » Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 8:55 AM UTC

JoelPM wrote: post #7

It sounds more like you want to learn a web framework than a new language. Picking a framework depends on what your goals are - do you want to develop REST based services, write rich-internet-applications, or do more traditional web-apps? Cappuccino looks interesting for developing RIAs (or whatever the current buzz-word for these things is) but I wouldn't use it if you're just looking to develop the next best blog e…

I would also say that if you're doing something really simple looking at github pages (html with jekyll & liquid) http://pages.github.com/

Re: Ask HN: Best Web Language to Learn

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Post by mvalente » Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 12:47 PM UTC

chrischen wrote: post #8

Seeing as how you already know PHP, I would say Javascript is the next big thing, especially if you're into cool looking web apps. It's also something you'd need no matter what your server side is.

Seeing as how you already know Java, I would say Javascript is the next big thing, especially because it's also something that you can use server side.

http://commonjs.org/ http://nodejs.org/

-- MV

Re: Ask HN: Best Web Language to Learn

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Post by chrischen » Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 5:55 PM UTC

mvalente wrote: post #12

chrischen wrote: post #8

Seeing as how you already know PHP, I would say Javascript is the next big thing, especially if you're into cool looking web apps. It's also something you'd need no matter what your server side is.

Seeing as how you already know Java, I would say Javascript is the next big thing, especially because it's also something that you can use server side. http://commonjs.org/ http://nodejs.org/ -- MV

There's also jaxer.org