Here we go again with JavaScript. Can't wait for this cycle to go back down like it did back when jQuery and Node first came out and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?
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Re: Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?
#52Java and Ruby at work, depending on the project.
Re: Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?
#53PHP. It may be old, tricky to debug, and cumbersome to write long projects with but the ability to bounce in and out of logic on a simple, proven, well adopted stack that has plenty of knowledge-base and ready machines everywhere has it's advantages. Plus, I've heard a lot of developers knock PHP but I've yet to see a problem solved with Ruby or Python that couldn't have been solved with PHP.
That last sentence is pretty true of any combination of languages and it feels defensive.
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#54PSA: Don't forget to up-vote the poll itself.
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#55Java and Groovy, mostly. More Groovy (via Grails) for web specific stuff, sometimes plain vanilla Java for backend services. Nothing is off the table though... I'll happily use Scala, C++, Haskell, Python, Rust, Go, or Intercal, if there's a good justification for it in a specific situation.
Re: Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?
#56I haven't found a web server language to my liking yet. Maybe I'm too picky, but I'd like to satisfy all of these requirements:
- Static typing -- I want to eliminate as many runtime bugs as I can
- Type inference -- Like in SML and Haskell
- No JVM -- Personal preference, but I'd rather not pull in this monster if I don't have to.
- Good pre-made web framework -- I've briefly looked at OCaml but the web frameworks seem disappointing. Tell me if I'm wrong!
Re: Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?
#57ruby and dlang
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#58Elixir and Ruby at work (previously Go as well). I have also done backend development in JavaScript, PHP, Python and Clojure.
Elixir is certainly my favorite to work with, so far.
Re: Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?
#59I haven't found a web server language to my liking yet. Maybe I'm too picky, but I'd like to satisfy all of these requirements: - Static typing -- I want to eliminate as many runtime bugs as I can - Type inference -- Like in SML and Haskell - No JVM -- Personal preference, but I'd rather not pull in this monster if I don't have to. - Good pre-made web framework -- I've briefly looked at OCaml but the web frameworks s…
There are a couple Haskell frameworks that might fit the bill. Yesod is a big one, although some take issue with its excessive use of Template Haskell. Others to look at would include Servant, and the very confusingly named rest framework.
Re: Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?
#60The people using Haskell should write more blog posts about using it in production.