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Scalability doesn't have anything to do with the programming language but rather with the architecture. The same goes for performance unless you're talking about pure number-crunching. The ease of development depends on your experience with either toolset.

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but by asking this question you sound like you aren't a programmer but rather somebody that wants to go to rent-a-coder and have somebody build 'the next facebook'.

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You are right, partly. Am more of a DB person with a minimal understanding of scripting languages. Hence the reach-out. About building the next facebook, I would love to.

Yeah, if this kind of questions asked on stackoverflow, the topic will be closed by the admins. Nevertheless, there are pros and cons for every programming and scripting language but yeah scalability has got to do with your architecture of your application.

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