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Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

#33

I think that the languages used by people who voted for "Other" are the most interesting to see in this context. Could you please post what language you're using in your project if you use a language that is not listed? I use Erlang.

Me too

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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post #34

Interesting to see how everyone seems to be constantly picking on PHP, yet this poll shows that it's the second most used language used for our apps/startups.

This may be an "unpopular" view, but if you need a simple, no nonsense, well supported language, tailored for web use with no big gotchas and you are not facing any particularly exquisite engineering problems.... PHP is often a no brainer.

(it's kinda the Perl of web development)

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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I think as startups grow, they tend to end up with something of a frankenstein-ish mix of languages as they write bits that are well suited to each language. For us I ended up checking C++, Java, Javascript, Perl and Ruby, though we have little bits also in Python, Scala and PHP as well.

As a sidenote, we track which programming languages our webservices customers are using and I made a graph of such here:

http://blog.directededge.com/2010/05/30/what-programming-lan...

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