Both are very good options. Sooner or later I'd recommend looking at both of them. Preferably sooner, although you might just skip over most of it. Read their r

Both are very good options. Sooner or later I'd recommend looking at both of them. Preferably sooner, although you might just skip over most of it. Read their relevant "Getting started" tutorials (and/or screencasts), and just follow your hunch about language and its use. There are other interesting systems, but I think looking at the two "big dogs" of the open source framework world is always a good start. Let's leave Nitrogen, Compojure and Hunchentoot for later…