Comment by smonff | Hacker News Reader

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Don't believe the hype. Rust and Go are nice, but 95% of the time you don't need those. Especially when I read about the fact that it is "developed by Google for their own needs", I mean, you surely not work for Google. Same with React: you are (maybe) not a Facebook engineer that must work on one of the most complex front end of the world.

Just use stuff that works, and that most people already know. Python, Perl, Ruby, jQuery, PHP, etc. Any of those have all the tools you need, proper documentation, millions of Stack Overflow discussions, and exceptional ecosystems and communities.

I am a Perl enthusiast since more than ten years. Personnal opinion, feel free to ignore it. It got the incredible [Mojolicious](https://mojolicious.org) framework that makes possible to deploy a full API through a oneliner. I know everybody hates Perl (especially for web development), but I am really tired of all the re-inventing the wheels.

I would never study another languages. I am forty. I am tired.

> Just use stuff that works, and that most people already know. Python, Perl, Ruby, jQuery, PHP, etc. Any of those have all the tools you need, proper documentation, millions of Stack Overflow discussions, and exceptional ecosystems and communities.

Most of the stuff you mentioned is also highly inefficient and requires much more computational resources to reach the same level of service.

Java is also conspicuously missing from that list, even though it has a solid infrastructure and ecosystem.

Inefficient for what? Are Perl regexps inefficient? No, they are the best. Isn't Python's Django efficient at producing full web applications in no-time with decent performances and that can be maintainable? Maybe you are speaking of the way jQuery don't work at managing the reactive interfaces of half of the websites since 2006?

Who spoke of efficiency. Everything is inefficient. Are cars efficient? No. You use less time at walking your way than using a car and working to pay your car. Plus they are dirty.

I have to admit that I forgot Java that have the most efficient object system in the world: btw I got trained on it and spent half of my career coding Java. I just tried to quote stuff I wasn't familiar with.

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