Subj : Re: A big project
To   : comp.programming
From : Tatu Portin
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 09:51 am

mike.novecento@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I am going to start a new company in a little while. The company will
> be founded when the first project will be in the alpha version. Several
> other projects will be done in future. My problem is determing what
> platform I should use.
> 
> I know how to program in several languages but ignore this for the
> moment.
> I am going to start a big project like blogger.com, flickr.com,
> cragilists or something like that. The fact that the project will be
> (hopefully) popular implies security issues and application
> stress/scaling issues as well.
> For these reasons, I need to be very careful on the choise of the web
> development platform. I have 3 candidates:
> 
> - PHP
> - Ruby on Rails
> - ASP.NET
> 
> My aim is SPEED OF DEVELOPMENT, LOW TIME TO LEARN THE TECHNOLOGY and
> APPLICATION STRENGHT (to security and to scalability issues).
> 
> Could you tell me what do you think of these 3 technologies for my
> needs. I am tempted by Ruby, but lots of people says it is not mature
> enough. Php, they say is not so secure and robust. ASP.NET I need 2
> years of study and 4000 pages, for doing an hello world (ok I am
> overestimating :-)).
> 
> Can you help me? Tell me your comments?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
> 
> PS: THANK-YOU, it is very important for my future the choise of
> platform for my company.
> 

Perl? ... It has "robust-mode" as Ruby, but is older & more functionality?

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