taobao.com use php on their front page, so I guess this is used for web services internally and/or used for new developments. The blog of the main developer[1]

taobao.com use php on their front page, so I guess this is used for web services internally and/or used for new developments. The blog of the main developer[1] is quite interesting, too. I'm going to have a serious look at it. I've always liked lua (something between tcl and python, language-wise), and even if it doesn't make the cut as a front end solution (because of missing stuff or simply because I'm going with a pure javascript frontend), it would seem to be a good replacement for a non-blocking backend server like node.js. [1]: http://agentzh.blogspot.com/ http://agentzh.blogspot.com/