What to choose for beginner: PHP/Python/Ruby
- by Nai
I'm a beginner teaching myself to code but I would like he insight of the PSE community and helping choose where to start.
My main objective is to be able to create a basic website to first test my business idea and from there iterate on it quickly to minimise my learning time.
The most important criteria for me is speed. An example of speed would be pre-built components available open source and not having to write one from scratch. From my research, this seems to be a death match between the following languages and frameworks:
PHP and CakePHP
Python and Django
Ruby and Rails
Assumptions:
I am going to be equally good (or bad) in all 3. It is going to be equally easy to find competent developers in either language. I know this to be false already by lets assume that it is. This question is not meant to karma whore as I've seen how passionate some of these standoff questions have been and I'll be happy to turn it into a community wiki.
