I've got involved in a internet startup and their site could eventually get very large and employ 10 developers quite easily.
Any ideas which open-source language would be best and why?
e.g. PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, Perl...?
2007-10-30 10:03:31 · 3 answers · asked by Oliphant 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
The HTML answer cracked me up :-)
2007-10-30 10:10:42 · update #1
Everyone has their own preferences for languages.
PHP is very popular, and there are loads of people who can write it, but some purists don't regard it as a "proper" programming language.
Java is really an enterprise-level technology. If you've just got a couple of developers to start off with, it probably isn't appropriate.
Ruby on Rails is getting a lot of publicity these days - but your developers would probably have to learn a whole new language.
Another option is one of the new Python frameworks. Python is a language that a lot of people know, at least to a basic level, and frameworks like Django are the same sort of idea as Rails is to Ruby. Django is becoming increasingly popular - there are some very large sites starting to use it.
2007-10-30 23:49:50 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go for the PHP and MySQL combo. It is one of the most tried and proven solutions for all kinds of websites, large or small.
Ruby does look promising though, but I know very little about it.
2007-10-30 10:21:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
uh, HTML?
sorry, lol, i've never used perl, but have used java and php. I would also go with php.
2007-10-30 10:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋