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Given the choice to develop in the Java, Python or Ruby language, I'd choose Python and Ruby over Java. But given the choice to develop on the Java, Python or R

by spreiti 16y ago

Given the choice to develop in the Java, Python or Ruby language, I'd choose Python and Ruby over Java. But given the choice to develop on the Java, Python or Ruby platform, I'd choose the Java platform over the 2 others any day because with the Java platform I can choose to develop in Java, Groovy, Scala etc. and have many useful OS libraries at my disposal. I'm just working on my web startup using Groovy and Grails and many things I need are provided out of the box or through plugins (security, search) that are easy to install, configure and use. I think you should consider platforms as a whole and not just the languages.

pconf 16y ago
For our webapp the sweet spot has been Java/Tomcat for it's stability and security with python methods compiled into Java bytecode for regex and other methods that are cumbersome in Java. The downside is that Jython throws more runtime exceptions. OTOH it has incentivized a ramp-up in unit testing (Maven, Selenium).