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Question

I am wondering what other people have experienced in creating a web service application, what language/framework is best suited for a beginner? Are there characteristics of the chosen language that make it better suited to programmers of a certain way of thinking that makes language XYZ appeal to particular programmers more?

I'm looking at learning php, Ruby (probably RoR), or Python (using Django). Every search I do comes up with one person saying how wonderful one is then another person bashes it, and I'm not getting any sense of why a particular language would appeal to a particular user and be more suitable for a choice to use, or where a particular choice would appeal to a given task like communicating with a MySQL database or ease of long term maintenance of an application.

Anyone have input on this without turning it into a debate?

Answer 1

For self-directed learning, PHP is actually kind of hard to beat. It's forgiving in the sense that the language is flexible and straitforward. The library is easy to learn and even easier to search through. Being able to mix code and markup can speed learning as well.

In the long term though, there's not much else PHP has to offer. Java, Python, C# all offer better designed languages and more consistent libraries at the cost of slightly more layers of abstraction.