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Ask HN: What's a good practical web language to learn?
Hello fellow hackers. I have 12 years experience with PHP and MySQL, what I am wondering is, what is a good practical web language to learn?
I have thought about learning Node.js and MongoDB. Also even thought about Python.
Please give me practical reasons, not "X is better than Y because I said so".
Thanks!
- richf 15y agoMy vote goes toward Node.js. My reasoning for this is because of the versatility of JavaScript across the stack (both front-end and back-end) - you only need to learn one language! As per database, call me old-fashioned, but I'm still with the MySQL camp. NoSQL databases like MongoDB have their uses, but MySQL is king for me - for now, anyway. :P
- joshmanders 15y agoThanks for the feedback. Sticking with MySQL would be best for me too as I know it, but it would be nice to learn a NoSQL database too.
- Exoseq 15y agoI'd go with Javascript / Node.... 1 JS is universally deployed (1 language to learn) 2 JS works pretty well as a functional language, which is becoming much more important of late 3 Node(still a work in progress) covers the server side too, and the result is a scalable, single language solution.