You would be standing on the shoulders of giants. Just do a bit of research to see what other big players on the net are running on. Lots of Python, Ruby and

You would be standing on the shoulders of giants. Just do a bit of research to see what other big players on the net are running on. Lots of Python, Ruby and PHP. You won't find as many people suggest PHP, but much of Facebook runs on PHP (though this is a case where the company now wishes it could have a "do over" on that one.)