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Poll: Which programming language do you prefer for startup?
Which programming language do you prefer for an Startup project?
I believe the chosen language should be Easy To Learn, Simple Enough and Powerful to have a successful Startup.
- GuriK 14y agoThere are no answer imo. If you or you're team know PHP - PHP is the best in this case. You will spend lots of time to learn and then do something with new language.
- bayesianhorse 14y agoThe problem with that statement for me is that I can't very well imagine a moderate to good coder to lead the technical part of a web startup and who hasn't had exposure to more than one language and framework.
- mschuster91 14y agoThis is a question of the type "give me the problem scope first". Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses: 1) Developers: Finding a PHP dev is easy. Nearly everyone doing web development speaks PHP. The problem is the quality. NodeJS is a damn new technology, but as it's JS, you have a wide pool of talent there. RoR/Python are still rather "exotic", and the competition is high for employers. 2) Scope of the project: Web-based project with most stuff done in backend? Go for PHP. Web-based project with loads of small backend stuff? Frontend HTML+JS, backend NodeJS. Web-based and desktop-based? Go for Python. Want to have your server hacked? Get Ruby. (Disclaimer: PHP+Python fanboy speaking) 3) Cost of hiring, cost of maintenance, server cost: If you have loads of money for servers, add the memory hog Java to your list. If you're short on money, there's only PHP as any cheap-ass or freehoster will have it. Once more, take the question "What do I want to achieve?" into hand. Without knowing what you want to do, we can not give you a clear advice.