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Volguus
Mar 3, 2009

neurotech posted:

I'm seeing a lot of making GBS threads on node, but not much in terms of advice, suggestions or recommendations about alternatives.

If not node, then what should web applications be built on?

Anything else really. Fortunately you have a wide choice of languages and platforms, most of them being better than node/javascript on the server. C++, Go, Python, Scala, Java, Groovy, Ruby, JRuby, Haskell even.

Anything would do. Just because you don't have a choice on the client, doesn't mean that you should throw away choice on the server.

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Volguus
Mar 3, 2009

pepito sanchez posted:

Okay so Django is another no. Thanks for the replies. I still think Python is a pretty cool language, just for small projects. I'm just slowly making a game on the side with it, and it's a joy to play with, really like a toy language where you can see the structure of a real language play out in simplified pseudo-code (almost).

Python is great for prototyping. Other than that is just abuse.

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