We differ greatly in enthusiasm regarding PHP. I'd not come near to it, and I know it has gotten a lot better. The language you pick is the hardest choice to co

We differ greatly in enthusiasm regarding PHP. I'd not come near to it, and I know it has gotten a lot better. The language you pick is the hardest choice to come back to later on. PHP is just not very well made. Django is nice, Rails is much better architected and Ruby is just a nicer language than Python (cleaner to read, more functional-goodness built in, better APIs both in std libs and gems). I agree Elixir+Phoenix is a great choice too.