[HacktionLab] Web development language question

[Mike Harris]

Hi All,

I've asked this question before to see what people felt, but that was
well over a year ago so I'll ask it again.

Say you work on a web based service with a lot of legacy code written in
an older web-scripting language, Perl, and you're wanting to move to a
newer language for web applications, or even a framework to do new
development - you're still planning to support the legacy code for a
number of years - what language and/or framework would you pick?

What you'd like to do though is avoid jumping on something that is too
new and too buzzy - http://ttfa.net/lemonmarket - as you'd like to make
a technology decision that would be good at least for the next five
years, if not more, and today's rising star could quite easily be in
tomorrow's dustbin.

Any ideas?

Mike.

p.s. and yes it's a work question, but one interesting I think

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