Absent any other info, for a "single developer in 2024": Python and Django. Reason: You're statistically the most likely to know Python at least a little bit.

Absent any other info, for a "single developer in 2024": Python and Django. Reason: You're statistically the most likely to know Python at least a little bit. In general the selection algorithm for results-driven development is: First, go with whatever web framework you're most comfortable with. If you don't have any, go with whatever the most popular framework is, in the programming language you're most familiar with. The reason this works well is because your question is ill-formed. In general, I haven't seen any hard evidence that Django vs. Rails vs. Laravel vs. Node vs. (etc.)-based projects have big variations in lead time to new features, lead time to bug fixes, etc. Your knowledge of the underlying PL, framework, and their quirks dwarfs any technical advantage they might have over one another. (For the sake of completeness: If you don't know any programming languages, go with whatever the most popular language is. How do you know what's popular? Intuition! Most people's brains will answer "Python" or maybe "JavaScript" to that question, and those are both great choices. If you're the kind of weirdo who says "Ruby" or "PHP" or "Scheme", you might as well roll with it, because that answer comes from a part of you which is constantly noticing the trends in its local environment, and it probably has a lot more logic than you would expect.)