[HacktionLab] Web development language question

[naomi at aktivix.org]

+1 for the REST api.


Quoting Charlie Harvey <charlie at newint.org>:

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> On 01/07/14 08:58, Mike Harris wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Hi,
>
> If it was in perl anyway I'd have a look at
> dancer(http://perldancer.org/), mojolicious(http://mojolicio.us/) or
> catalyst(http://www.catalystframework.org/) to make a frontend, and
> gradually transition across.
>
> I'd also consider making a REST content API and using angular.js, or
> backbone.js or [insertsomeclevername].js rather than building everything
> server side. But that would depend on the project. Maybe I'd just look
> for a drupal module or wordpress plugin or write one.
>
> Have to agree with Naomi that Node and javascript has a lot of traction
> right now.
>
> There are a lot of interesting things going on on the JVM-based
> languages too -- clojure and scala have some really interesting web
> frameworks especially if you're building something that needs to scale.
>
> And Erlang has a framework called webmachine for doing web APIs
> https://github.com/basho/webmachine/wiki/Overview.
>
> Having said all that, from what I know of it, Django is a solid choice,
> specially if you want to learn a bit of python anyway.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
>> 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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