Ask HN: What web development language do you prefer?

#1

Post by Aeiper » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 2:45 AM UTC

What languages do you like the most for making websites? (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, etc)

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#2

Post by john_whelan » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 2:51 AM UTC

HTML mostly because of the capabilities that came with HTML5.

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Post by Aeiper » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 2:54 AM UTC

john_whelan wrote: post #2

HTML mostly because of the capabilities that came with HTML5.

Have you made any recent websites using HTML5 extensively?

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Post by ibrahimmomani » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 3:03 AM UTC

NodeJs , php

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#5

Post by TheHydroImpulse » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 3:04 AM UTC

john_whelan wrote: post #2

HTML mostly because of the capabilities that came with HTML5.

You can't do much with just HTML. Remember, HTML5 is basically just a wrapper around all the new web technologies (local storage, webgl, audio API, web sockets, etc...). Most of these technologies are interfaced with JavaScript and not HTML.

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Post by TheHydroImpulse » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 3:05 AM UTC

JavaScript (Node.js & Browser), Java and Scala for backend services...

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Post by bhauer » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 3:12 AM UTC

I'm going to go with "etc" from your list of choices.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 3:18 AM UTC

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Post by stray » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 3:22 AM UTC

Common Lisp

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Post by tuananh » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 3:32 AM UTC

PHP is clumsy but it does the job well.