I'd still choose Python/Django as the basis for a startup now. Would probably choose Ruby/Rails if that was where my expertise lied, although I still see lots o

I'd still choose Python/Django as the basis for a startup now. Would probably choose Ruby/Rails if that was where my expertise lied, although I still see lots of Python engineers (in London) and few Ruby engineers. I think the pattern of a monolith that's very easy to rapidly develop on, plus specialist services around the edge that might be high performance/security/etc and are written in languages like Rust is a pretty good strategy. Personally, having seen the speed of development on a Django project, it's hard to justify much else for the boring CRUD core of a service.