I believe most mainstream languages used for web development are quite old now. And today it is matter of personal taste to choose one over another one unless y

I believe most mainstream languages used for web development are quite old now. And today it is matter of personal taste to choose one over another one unless you are constrained by coding standards. To me Perl is awesome :) Too bad I do PHP for a living, but I still enjoy it when doing something for myself. Like last time I learned about web framework Mojolicious ( http://mojocasts.com/ http://mojocasts.com/ ) and built http://gotldr.com http://gotldr.com and http://hntldr.com http://hntldr.com leveraging Mojolicious and Redis - https://github.com/hippich/perl-tldrer https://github.com/hippich/perl-tldrer . It took me few evenings, but I really enjoyed tinkering it.