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Ask HN: What is the best language to write a REST back end in?

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I am currently running Java on a tomcat as backend rest service. Which language would be good to migrate to. Good performance, future proof and I can find other people to maintain as well.

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Hands down DRF: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

To do basic CRUD stuff, you write like 0 lines of real code. Just use a ViewSet, connect a Serilizer and a Model object. Everything just works and you can save the data into Postgres in no time.

Django is a massive community and you can do a lot more complex things than a CRUD app, but the easy stuff is just soo easy.

Since I develop 99% on Java I would recommend anything along the lines of Spring Boot, Dropwizard or Wildfly Swarm. With Dropwizard I can't say much since I only played with it a little, on the other hand having developed projects with Spring Boot and Swarm I can say both do the job really well, both seem pretty much future proof (even though many claim JEE is dead).

Personally I would go with Swarm since I feel there is less work configuring it. With the added advantage of being used to develop in JEE Environments.

If you are planning to build a microservice architecture I can recommend my project https://hemerajs.github.io/hemera-site/ there is also a https://hapijs.com/ Plugin available.

It depends what you want the backend for - scale, speed of writing

Im primarily a java developer and wouldnt have a problem writing it using dropwizard or spring boot. But I'd also consider django-rest since i like django, or nodejs as alternatives

How do you feel about nodejs in terms of scale and speed?

https://hapijs.com/

- High qualitity plugins - Widely used e.g Paypal, Disney, Walmart - Very good documentation

Personally one of the best web frameworks I've ever used.

What's the advantage against for instance expressjs?

http://matt-harrison.com/moving-from-express-to-hapi-js/ https://youtu.be/Recv7vR8ZlA

This is one of these questions where everybody recommends his favorite stack and nobody is wrong.

I was mainly wondering whether to use Go or nodejs as backend. Any suggestions regarding scalability and performance?

Both are perfectly suiteable. I dont like Javascript so i would go for go :)

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