Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday July 30, 2005 @06:14AM from the dilemma-of-many-choices dept.

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?"

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Re:Polyglot by FortKnox · 2005-07-30 06:22 · Score: -1, Redundant

gmail and google maps are written in Java and take advantage of AJAX (look it up).
They are why Ajax is making such a big splash now (even though its been available for years).

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Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Java != Javascript by gunpowda · 2005-07-30 06:32 · Score: 0, Redundant

Google uses C/C++ (search), Java (gmail)
This is wrong. They use JavaScript, not Java. Completely different entities.