PHP with Laravel. I can highly recommend it. It really is a RoR-like experience, only without the 'I don't know what just happened but it looks allright'.
Ask HN: What web development language do you prefer?
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#32PHP for me. I'm a big believer in sticking with what you know best or using the tools you currently have. If it works, it works!
Also the same reason I stick with C# for Win32, Java for Android, etc.
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#33For web applications, I loved what I could do with Java EE and GWT.
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#34HTML, CSS, Javascript are pretty much all essential and go together, especially for modern looking sites.
my backend of preference - PHP and MySQL, they just work.
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#35http://vibed.org/ is my personal favorite. It's quick to start, its very fast, and it's easy to use.
HTML Templates based of Jade (But running D instead of JS), easy rest interface, what more could I want?
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#36Ruby, but I'm starting to get into Clojure for web development. There aren't a lot of resources out there so I'm starting to write tutorials.
Mind sharing your tutorials. I've also been interested in Clojure for quite a while but never really got around to getting started.
I only have one tutorial written, I actually just finished it just before writing that comment.
You can get to it here. http://folkrobots.com/2013/04/27/clojure-compojure-tutorial-...
It's only a hello world web application example, not sure if you'd be interested in that. I plan on going through building a simple blog and then building upon that with tutorials for authentication, form validation, etc.
I'm also still not sure if I'm going to keep it in a text format or do screencasts. I searched HN for opinions and people have said that they like text better because they can go at their own pace, but some people like screencasts.
Let me know what kind of tutorials you're looking for. I'm going after web development because I'm mainly a web developer and I find there is a huge lack of resources for beginners.
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#37python, sql, coffee/js, haml, sass
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#38Clojure, I used to do Python with Django or Flask. HTML/CSS aren't optional so I don't know why you included that in the list. I've tried Node.js, hated it.
could you describe your experience switching from python to clojure in web dev?
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#39Clojure, I used to do Python with Django or Flask. HTML/CSS aren't optional so I don't know why you included that in the list. I've tried Node.js, hated it.
could you describe your experience switching from python to clojure in web dev?
More powerful language (primitives, concision, macros), more performance (JVM fun-ness).
Some aspects of the JVM (slow-start) are icky but the tooling works around it (in-runtime auto-reload without restarting the JVM).
I'm a grumpy old CL'er so I was waiting for something like Clojure to come along anyway.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
could you describe your experience switching from python to clojure in web dev?
More powerful language (primitives, concision, macros), more performance (JVM fun-ness). Some aspects of the JVM (slow-start) are icky but the tooling works around it (in-runtime auto-reload without restarting the JVM). I'm a grumpy old CL'er so I was waiting for something like Clojure to come along anyway.
tx, but I meant the toolset and ecosystem, not the language features. popular frameworks, libs, out of the box solutions, opensource community, etc. - is clojure rich in this matter?