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Entrepreneurs and hackers: Programming Language / API survey 2014 for modern web service front end.

I had a discussion with entrepreneurs about their choice language as of summer 2014. The top contenders are: Ruby on Rails Node.Js Java Python C# Clojure Scala PHP cc  Chasen   Denman   Litchfield   Charmley Like Like  ·   ·  Share Albert Ko   PHP for a fast MVP. Then Java/Python. 3 hrs  ·  Like Tom Vykruta   Albert are you familiar with more modern languages like RoR and Node.Js? (the industry has generally moved away from PHP and Java). If you are familiar and still prefer PHP/java would be curious to hear your thoughts. 3 hrs  ·  Like Justin Litchfield   I'm a Ruby guy. In addition to Rails, Ruby has Sinatra for lighter-weight web services, and some stripped down versions of Rails for API-specific use that are pretty good. I think that for me it strikes a great balance of simplicity and testability.  ... See More 3 hrs ...