Ask HN: What stack do you use to build side projects/hackathons

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Hi just curious what stacks do you use to build side projects, weekend projects or hackathon projects. Also why?

Python/Django with MySql + html5/css

Mostly Groovy & Grails, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS/Javascript, JQuery. Beyond that there are quite a few specific libraries and tools that I commonly use: Lucene for text search, Rome for processing feeds, Jersey for JAX-RS REST interfacing. I tend to use JMS pretty heavily as well. Apache Camel, depending on the situation. Hadoop if there's a need for "big data" stuff.

Why? Because this stuff is mature, battle-tested and proven, and it's what I know. I find that, all around, the "JVM ecosystem" is a nice environment with great libraries and tools, and multiple languages to choose from. I like Groovy because it leverages the years I spent learning and doing Java, but it's a lot nice than Java in many ways.

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