Ruby has Rails and Python has multiple mature web frameworks (Django is one of them) and both are much nicer to program in than PHP. > However, what language

Ruby has Rails and Python has multiple mature web frameworks (Django is one of them) and both are much nicer to program in than PHP. > However, what language do you think most developers are interested in ? Java or C#, which is why that consideration is orthogonal to your problem. > Also remember that this is not silicon valley. Apropos of --? As for the Boulder situation, my reading wasn't that nobody had used Java before, as you claim; but that "the Java platform" was the wrong choice for web development.