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by smt88 4152 days ago
Depending on the frontend, I use either PHP or Node. Python is a better language and more enjoyable to code in, but I often pass my projects on to junior devs to maintain. It's a lot harder to find someone to take over a Python project than a PHP or JavaScript one. All the good Python devs seem to be gobbled up by larger companies.

I'm getting into Go now, but I'm hopeful Rust will become the language of the future. I'm desperate for a great type system in a web framework. Elixir is cool, but I don't think I could find anyone to work on it for me.

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> Elixir is cool, but I don't think I could find anyone to work on it for me.

You would be surprised! The Elixir community is growing quite fast. Come hang out on IRC in #elixir-lang on freenode sometime. Elixir also has the added bonus of the entire community more or less accepting Phoenix as the "go to" Web framework so Elixir doesn't have nearly the amount of web framework fragmentation of Go or Node.