Hey guys, if you couldn't tell, I'm very jaded towards web programming languages, so no offense to you guys.
I'm looking for a decent web programming language. PHP is horrendous (performance, scalability, security), and is only eclipsed by Ruby/RoR (all that plus lack of control). Microsoft's .Net isn't the WORST choice imho but its locked to Microsoft's Operating Systems and has licensing involved, which I'd prefer to avoid (and I'm leary of Mono's stability).
J2EE seems like its a huge investment to get anything written as well, plus your standard WAR containers are memory hogs, so I'd like to avoid that if I could.
I regard myself as a relatively decent programmer so I wouldn't mind doing something difficult; I'd use C/C++ if I thought it would be relatively safe and not have to worry about database interaction hell.
My current ideas are Erlang, Lua, and Python. Does anyone have experience with these languages in a web context?
I'm open to sugguestions, and I'm also willing to mix languages (Python front end controller, C backend, etc).
Basically I have one project in mind that requires a lot of scalability and performance, but I'm also looking for a general purpose web language for everyday coding. Preferably something with a few more features than werc/rc (not that these are bad, just require a lot of effort to get working in the context's I'm considering, and it feels like I'd be slapping a nun by adding in XML-RPC functionality to werc).
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Hey guys, if you couldn't tell, I'm very jaded towards web programming languages, so no offense to you guys.
I'm looking for a decent web programming language. PHP is horrendous (performance, scalability, security), and is only eclipsed by Ruby/RoR (all that plus lack of control). Microsoft's .Net isn't the WORST choice imho but its locked to Microsoft's Operating Systems and has licensing involved, which I'd prefer to avoid (and I'm leary of Mono's stability).
J2EE seems like its a huge investment to get anything written as well, plus your standard WAR containers are memory hogs, so I'd like to avoid that if I could.
I regard myself as a relatively decent programmer so I wouldn't mind doing something difficult; I'd use C/C++ if I thought it would be relatively safe and not have to worry about database interaction hell.
My current ideas are Erlang, Lua, and Python. Does anyone have experience with these languages in a web context?
I'm open to sugguestions, and I'm also willing to mix languages (Python front end controller, C backend, etc).
Basically I have one project in mind that requires a lot of scalability and performance, but I'm also looking for a general purpose web language for everyday coding. Preferably something with a few more features than werc/rc (not that these are bad, just require a lot of effort to get working in the context's I'm considering, and it feels like I'd be slapping a nun by adding in XML-RPC functionality to werc).
Thanks for the help.
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