Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?

anyon wonders: "PHP is the most popular language for the web. eBay uses ISAPI (C), Google uses C/C++ (search), Java (gmail), and Python. Microsoft uses ASP (what else?). For small web site, it really doesn't matter. What's your take on language choice for large-scale web applications? Maybe language choice is irrelevant, only good people (developers) matter? If you can get the same good quality people, then what language you would chose? Considering the following factors: performance, scalability, extendibility, cost of development (man-month), availability of libraries, cost of libraries, development tools? Has there been a comprehensive comparison done?"

Comments

Re:Please stop insulting python.

[cpghost]

When was it since you've last tried Zope? They've made some pretty good improvements as of lately. Or are you referring to Plone, which IS really, really slow?

Re:If you are a singlehanded developer

[Darth_Burrito]

Or you leave the company, and some poor unsuspecting sucker with Perl on their resume gets hired and handed your old code as a by-the-way and then they end up spending every waking moment plotting your demise. I'm not bitter.

Re:You are contradicting yourself.

[Foofoobar]

Well like most people who confuse their ass with a hole in the ground, you confuse flexibility with instability. By your definition, yoga instructors would be institutionalized. For shame. What did their spandex wearing asses ever do to you.

I like being able to manipulate my own data rather than having it manipulated for me. That way I get to decide if I want to be a moron like yourself or follow good coding standards.

And although you think ALL languages do that, they DON'T... which just goes to show how badlty informed you are; next time try going to a real school rather than the local chapter of IEE.

And check out the Tiobe index sometime as to what the REAL programming languages are.

You see how easy it is to flame? Next time try being civil and maybe you'll make a friend or two. I'm sure then you might have an excuse to leave your mother's basement every once in awhile. :)