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Mauricio Duran
6,167 PointsBack-End programming
What is the best programming language for the back-end development of websites
1 Answer
John Tasto
21,587 PointsThere is no best language. Most people will tell you to use whatever you're most comfortable with. Facebook is written in PHP compiled to C++, Twitter was written in Ruby on Rails but then switched most of it to Scala, and Google uses C++, Java, Python, and Go for their various services. Any backend language can be quite capable, so choose whichever one you know best.
If you don't know any backend languages, PHP is one of the most common language in current deployment, Ruby has a steep learning curve but allows you to write code faster, Python has a shallower learning curve and is highly readable, Node lets you use JavaScript - which you may already know from front-end programming, and Scala is a functional language which makes multithreading simpler.
I have researched this topic while trying to come to a conclusion for myself, and the generalizations above are what I've read most often.