[HacktionLab] Web development language question

[Christian Wach]

Hey Mike,

On 1 Jul 2014, at 08:58, Mike Harris <mike at mbharris.co.uk> wrote:

> 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?

My view is that if you want your service to be resilient, it might be better to focus on the API that you expose, rather than the language you implement it in. Get that right and you can use whatever shiny new buzzword-compliant tech comes along.

Cheers,

Christian