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I was surprised to learn that github runs on ruby on rails. Interesting, I didn't know Ruby has been around just as long as PHP. I still would choose PHP if my

I was surprised to learn that github runs on ruby on rails. Interesting, I didn't know Ruby has been around just as long as PHP. I still would choose PHP if my opinion matters, just from my experience with the slow performance of ruby on rails when I gave it a go just a few years back. PHP - 23 years Ruby - 23 years Java - 23 years JavaScript (nodejs) - 22 years (9 years) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language#E...

bal00ns 8y ago
Don't forget Python - 28 years
- zimbatm 8y ago
  And finally, Perl - 30 years
  - kbenson 8y ago
    Thanks. I was going to be a little depressed if after all that someone didn't jump in with Perl. :) That said, it's frightfully close to 31 years... [1] 1: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html
    - JohnL4 8y ago
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j45 8y ago
Many of these languages, while productive in their own ways, almost universally need a framework to extend to the web. The few languages were web-first were often chastised for not being complete languages.
- jacob019 8y ago
  Not sure what you mean. A basic HTTP webserver can be implemented in a couple dozen lines of code using only sockets in most languages. Something more complex requires more code, which is often packed into a "framework", it doesn't belong baked into the language.
  - j45 8y ago
    Ruby uses a framework like Rails to reach the web more effectively. Python can use a framework like Django to reach the web more effectively. Compared to.. A language like PHP in the beginning was more directly coupled to the web (for better or worse).