Comment by Luis Orduz on "What's your recommended back-end programming language, or framework?"

CommentWhat's your recommended back-end programming language, or framework?

Luis Orduz

Software Engineer

Nov 24, 2016

Nothing comes even close to Python in this regard. I find its flexibility and the sheer amount of resources for it staggering.

That said, Python is not only Django; I don't even like it and much prefer Flask.

But, if one wants to get into python for the web, I'd recommend trying to create a simple REST API using only the standard library. It's not something one would use (there are libraries and frameworks for that); but it will create the right state of mind and, for beginners in python, will teach a lot of what's needed for the language, at least in terms of web development.

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Nov 24, 2016

unless you wanna do isomorphic interactive rendering and all of the sudden node wins :) or you need broad access to shared hosting infrastructures and php wins :) it's usecase based. I agree python is impressive and very flexible :) and I like working with it. But I am an agnostic and I know so many more frameworks and languages so I don't even bother to vote :)

I've always found the "this is use-case based" argument, when talking about programming languages, to be somewhat of a meaningless tautology.

Well, yes, there are some cases where some languages have been more popular than others (like shared hosting and PHP) but all of them are still, well, programming languages. We can use any of them to write anything and, as long as the language is halfway popular, there will be tools for ease of development and deployment services that support them.

And yes, there are some things that outright can't be done, such as trying to write in a language for a platform that doesn't support it (such as isomorphic rendering for the web in anything other than js) but, well, that's obvious so there's not really a need to point it out every time.

We all know those situations, but that doesn't mean we can't have languages we prefer working with. I like working with python in the backend, thus I recommended that.

If you don't have any preference, well, that's also good, I suppose.

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