Remi, et. al. - I have, from time to time, used many of the server-side languages that you list, and am generally dissatisfied with all of them for various reasons.
My current plan for future projects is to use Node.js, unless I run into any absolute show stoppers. The general advantages would be: * One code base written in JavaScript for both client and server. * Seamless transfer of functionality for offline operation. * Ajax-ish/JSON "stored procedures" available via database queries. * Web based development and testing (think JSfiddle) * Minimal server and development environment maintenance issues. * Consistency of programming style, documentation format and "automatic" cross training of team members. Disadvantages primarily center around scalability, but until things get outlandishly huge, simply throwing more Amazon EC3 instances at the problem should be cheap and reliable. With any luck, this will keep down the fragmentation nightmares that are caused by letting every programmer that comes through the door use the "expedient" language for every little application that accretes to the project. I would look forward to comments from anyone with experience with the tradeoffs that are involved. Brian ________________________________ From: Remi Grumeau <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 11:53 AM Subject: Server-side language pool Hi list, Just a quick question: which server-side language are you using for your mobile web projects/websites ? (if any) - PHP - ASPx - Java - ColdFusion - Python - Ruby - SAP - other (please tell) This might help us to work when working on documentations. Thanks! Remi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en.
