Which programming language do you use?
 

I'm going to assume, PHP will murder the rest of the languages -- but curiosity has got the best of me.

Which programing language do you use? Why?

Personally, I use PHP & Ruby on Rails for my programs. Rails is a new language to me, and I'm having a blast. It tends to be very streamlined, organized, logical, and seems to take about 40% less development time.

I have been considering building a Tube "script" in Ruby and offering it to the community... but it would be in Ruby. Not sure if many people would be able to edit and alter the code as they wanted.

--- I added wordpress, lol

My programmer does everything in PHP and for my support sites I use only Wordpress.

Ruby may be supercool, but personally I'd still wait before jumping on (depends on the type of project, of course).

The ONE thing, besides everything else, that makes PHP still unbeatable is the amount of codebase out there.

You want to do X, but in the way Y, and you have a special case Z.
Google XYZ, and 99% of the times there's something out there that does almost exactly what you want.

Most of the times coding in PHP is largely a matter of google/copy/paste/adapt. :2 cents:

Wordpress is coded in PHP with a little javascript/AJAX thrown in for good measure. It's the same way with most popular CMSs out there right now.

Personally, I code in PHP/Javascript/MySQL for most sites, Java and LUA for mobile apps (Android), COCOA for iOS and for programs either C++ or C#.

I use php, don't really know any other progamming languages.

php 4ever

Each language maву for it's own porpose, but I find Java the most powerful. IMHO

I write almost everything in Python now. If I need a framework I use Django.

Most of my older backend stuff is pure Perl.

PHP. It is easy to use,especially creating shopping cart is easy in it.

As I figured, PHP is pwning at 90%.

WordPress is extremely popular and has grown from a blog to a full out CMS -- which is the main reason I added it.



LeeD:
If you enjoy PHP, and feel comfortable with it -- you should try to dabble in other languages. Never know when someone asks for "something simple" in another language. If it means an extra job -- or even a free website, it's worth it. Knowledge is power :thumbsup


alf6300:
:banana lol, definitely true. Probably the biggest attraction to PHP is the fact that someone has already done exactly what you wanting to do -- and posted the code online for free... Except the idiotic "experts exchange" website. Unfortunately, PHP has a hard time truly scaling (imo). That being said, a well built server & optimized code (and SQL, don't forget the DB!) can definitely run like a champ.





Anyone else chiming in? :GFYBand

vba in exel

PHP :pimp

I hate PHP (LAMP), but I use it almost exclusively:(

I would love to do .NET or Ruby, but the cost of .NET dev tools are high and the library code base is so extensive that it takes a long time to learn all the objects.

I'd never learn .NET -- but I am completely bias. I have become anti-microsoft. I picked up my first Mac... and now my PC's at home have become foot stools. When I think Microsoft, I think :ak47: :error

LAMP isn't all that bad -- it is freely available, comes bundled in tons of software, and the community on the stack is amazing. I think the key here is the community.

I hate that PHP does not allow for or require declaration of variables and that everything is a variant. Makes OOP difficult if not impossible to do. "true" = 23 = "1" = true.

Java rocks!!!