[HacktionLab] Web development language question

[Mike Harris]

I posted it to /. too:

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/14/07/01/1243212/ask-slashdot-choosing-a-web-language-thats-long-lived-and-not-too-buzzy


On 01/07/2014 17:08, Mike Harris wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 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?
>>
>> 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
>>
> Thanks for the feedback so far everyone :) 
>
> Looks like it could well be a toss-up between Django vs Node/<buzzy>.js
>
> Those of you working with Django: is there a good IDE out there for it
> and/or Python?  We currently use Komodo for Perl, which is pretty ok,
> but pants in places, and not as good as the Jetbrains IDEs, such as
> PHPStorm, RubyMine or InteliJ.
>
> Noone's mentioned Ember.js so far....
>


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