[Arcanum-XIII]

"Note that I wouldn't recommend PHP in any greenfield development today"

I'm curious, but what would you recommend ? I'm not cynic — but I work in a very small startup, doing mainly maintenance code in php and I've suffered my share of "use Drupal for x" when x is inappropriate inside Drupal, or any cms, and would have asked for a mostly custom backend designed from the ground up. So for these case I'm stuck — trying to do my best within the constrain I have. But for the occasion where I can do better, I'm curious about alternative !

[eropple]

I generally use Java and Scala for my own personal projects. Scala less than I'd like because there's no really good solution for web development aside from Lift (and Lift, while comprised of fantastic code, doesn't map well to my mental model of web development), but moving more and more towards it over time.

Some Python too, but that's more for one-offs.