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Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Re: Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by btreecat »

JasonCEC wrote: post #43

We use R and Shiny server pro for our back-end. It's hosted on AWS EB with our static site on S3. We love it - the data scientists can write and push features directly, and everything (including our API's) are easily maintainable in R. I've been shouting the praise of R and it's usefulness as a production ready language for a long time. Contact me with questions about data science, start ups, or R - if you have a dat…

Last time I checked out shiny (about 8-12 months ago) it was still useless beyond the most trivial examples. Building an actual website that would be public facing seemed like a horrid idea at the time. Have they really come that far in such a short time?

Personally if I wanted to use R I could just interface with it from another language (Python, .Net, Java etc.) I haven't played enough with R recently to make an informed opinion on the current quality of its network libs and framework stack however it seems like an interesting gamble (that's paying off for you all?) given where the focus of the R community has been (statistical programming rather than general use) and statements on the front page of "No web development skills are required."

Re: Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by vonseel »

tbrock wrote: post #7

Nice to see some Django. I had to move away from it and towards flask and rails since it was basically abandonware for years. I'm glad they are moving forward and that the project is hosted on GitHub now.

Yes sir, while you were out the Django core devs have been killing it. Many thanks to those kind folks.

Re: Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by gkoberger »

npalli wrote: post #46

No iOS or Android? I would have thought the biggest change in the last five years (since you last conducted the survey) would have been the massive increase in startups working in mobile.

In this situation, iOS or Android would be more of a front end -- you'd still (usually) need one of the stacks in the poll. Using iOS or Android doesn't nullify this poll any more than using Angular or jQuery does.

Re: Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by chops »

Erlang with the Nitrogen Web Framework (http://nitrogenproject.com)

Also, a future project I've been kicking around will likely be done with Erlang and ChicagoBoss (http://chicagoboss.org) - not because Nitrogen is lacking, just in the name of mastering another framework with a different focus.

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