Hi,
There is no good answer to this question as you've probably worked
out. It is only full of very opinionated opinions.
So here's mine.
Note: At the end of the day its where you personally can locate good
talent, and what your tech lead likes that will mater more than
whatever opinion some outside person has on their web technology of
choice. It's not science. Ss long as your tech lead picks something
popular and well supported you should be right. Note I'm indicating
you should get a tech lead FIRST before picking a technology.
What I can say is the stats show python is a good bet long term.
Although RoR fans tends to be very vocal the stats show a different
story.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=python+django
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails
Look at the trends rather than absolute popularity since the search
terms are very different.
You'll notice RoR popularity has largely plateaued and is declining.
Django continues to grow.
Partly this can be attributed to the fact that python is a hugely
popular language with libraries for virtually anything which is an
advantage compared to niche languages used only for web development.
Pythons PyPy project is now achieving JIT powered speeds comparible to
V8 javascript performance, and it's always been faster than ruby.
Python is also incredibly easy to learn. Other than that there isn't a
lot of difference between ruby and python. I'm not an expert of rails
or django but I'd guess and say for any large development the
frameworks aren't much different.
And if you listened to what is currently latest hype you'd think
scala, groovy and node.js had some kind of large market share.
http://langpop.com/
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
(python is largely on a growth curve)
Of course in terms of web technology PHP outstrips them all in
popularity but then it's not all about popularity is it :)
For a web framework I personally use Pyramid, which isn't mentioned
above at all :)
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On 13/11/2011, at 12:04 PM, simran wrote:
Hi All,
A friend of mine who owns a design company in sydney is looking at
getting deeper into the value chain.
It is currently a small startup firm (just grew from 3-7 in the last
4 weeks though) - and they use a lot of wordpress for putting up
sites.
He is interested in moving up the value chain into a little bit of
development... most design jobs he has done are in the $0-10k range,
but is also interested in taking on development work in the $10-$30k
range, so it's not building your next site that will get a billion
visitors, but sites with some custom functionality and reasonable
usership!
There is some PHP knowledge inhouse as a result of the use of
wordpress.
He asked me for recommendations on what he should use as a framework
to start some development - and i said i'd ask the startup community
on what they are using and what is popular... so here goes...
What frameworks are people using out there? and maybe a one line pro/
con?
I'm from the perl era, and would have ordinarily recommended perl /
mod_perl / postgres / Template Toolkit and the likes, but that's my
bias based on familiarity... i'm sure there are easier more rapid
development frameworks out there (perhaps some ruby on rails?)
Love to hear from you on what you use, what you would recommend and
how you find it?
simran.
ps: traditionally i am personally biased against PHP/ASP type stuff
because it makes it "too easy" to mix business and presentation logic!
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