From by biased perspective scripting languages are leaders for web development. * Ruby * Python * JavaScript * PHP These are also the most brittle because the

From by biased perspective scripting languages are leaders for web development. * Ruby * Python * JavaScript * PHP These are also the most brittle because they invent and change quickly. I used to be a PHP developer and I thought the frameworks borrowed heavily from the stable Ruby and Python ideas for web app development. You'll find the crazy ones in Ruby and Python and a safer ground in PHP. Safest in Java. My bias. Vibrancy != longevity. Rails 3 bit me tonight because I didn't understand a 201 status code and I almost hacked the path and then what was going on…it felt like the most correct, wonderful thing to do. I'm happy with the result, especially because the code is clean and browsers honor it without a fussy redirect. Ruby and Python are vibrant, hungry communities. PHP is vibrant, more stable. Java is stable and most difficult to introduce an idea to unless it's a language atop the VM. :)