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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

For example, you may have content management and community needs that closely align with Drupal. Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby."

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

For every programming language, there’s a community surrounding it, making certain languages better suited for certain industries. Java and.NET, for example, are more enterprise-focused, giving them a more professional and formal tone. Ruby is generally adopted by small companies, owing to its experimental and exploratory community.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

University-level courses, tutorials, cheat sheets, and coding communities all offer excellent ways to pick up a new language, and maybe even a new job, too. Learn Code the Hard Way : On Learn Code The Hard Way, you’ll find books and courses to learn Python, Ruby, C, SQL, and Regex. Language Specific. Hackety Hack!

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Why Data Scientists Choose Python

YoungUpstarts

Its popularity has much to do with its simplicity, vast resources, and an active community, which are its distinguishing features. It also has an active community dedicated to the development of the language and offers a variety of different libraries that you would need as a data scientist. Python is simply the best.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular. Back in the 60’s, JFK make a bold proclimation that we were going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

Third place is held by plain Java Servlets running on Caucho''s Resin Servlet container. PHP with an ORM and Cake improved dramatically from last week''s test thanks to configuration changes recommended by the community. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. Java / JVM. Vert.x , which is built on Netty, retains second place. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

We have since posted a second round and third round that each include community-contributed updates. Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. We have left this first round intact as a historical record.

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