Niklas Rosenqvist
nixCraft 🐧For backend: what’s it gonna be?
PHP or NodeJS 🤔
PHP or NodeJS 🤔
PHP
NodeJS
I reply below
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Typositoire@nixCraft Golang or anything NOT php/nodejs!
Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
Eric de Redelijkheid 
(old account, moved) 
@nixCraft php ftw! (yes, the bar is that low)
Alexey
Melroy van den Berg@alexey88008 @nixCraft I like Go better. Zig really hit me in the face sometimes with simple JSON parsing stuff.
Preston Skaggs@nixCraft what kind of hellscape are you creating?
Worik@nixCraft Rust for high throughput, Go for everything else
Never ever again Node.js....
Progenitus@nixCraft
Java (Apache sling)
Java (Apache sling)
HP van Braam@nixCraft literally anything besides PHP or Node.
Good flamebait, 8/10 trolling.
Jessica Phoenix@nixCraft I'd shy away from either in favor of Elixir, but PHP isn't so bad these days, I'm told.
Jacqueline@nixCraft write your backend in C from the ground up
@burnoutqueen @nixCraft in Zig, little sense to start new project in C today
arfy 🐕 🌸@nixCraft anything than nodejs
Amro@nixCraft Ruby 😰
Milly@nixCraft Elixir
Geoff Mackenzie@nixCraft if I can get away with it, PostgREST. Failing that, I'd prefer Python (with FastAPI or Flask) before I'd resort to PHP, although I can tolerate PHP if it can't be avoided
KrisBuytaert@nixCraft iirc we killed any serverside javascript back in 1998 .. did you miss that memo too ?
.:\dGh/:.@nixCraft Honestly, PHP is great for everything that's too complex to handle and requires a DB setup.
On NodeJS, you can make an API faster as light long you don't juggle with data transformation, DTO or whatever the gods have decided to fuck you over.
raspbeguy@nixCraft Bash. I did that once.
GlennW
seism0saurusWhat do you want to do?
I would avoid the JavaScript world and anything there you can build security problems with wrong input lengths.
winter@nixCraft rust :)
Caden@nixCraft Go or OCaml
Patrick Schmitz@nixCraft both are horrible, although PHP might be the slightly less horrible option. I prefer either Python or Rust for all stuff.
Saustrup
js@nixCraft choosing between dogs shit and dogs piss
pecet 🦒🇪🇺@nixCraft I heard that PHP is good nowadays but I absolutely despise JS. So easy choice
`Da Elf@nixCraft Guess I'll make popcorn and wait for the flames.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@nixCraft I still like GHC Haskell for a production backend. But, I voted "NodeJS" because it is the more reasonable of the two options. I wouldn't write (most) of the JS directly tho; I'd use PureScript to generate it.
If you HAVE to use the "PHP Runtime", then *at least* use Hack to save your sanity. https://hacklang.org/
Frank@nixCraft
The best language: Bash
With our beloved web framework: Bash on Balls…
https://github.com/jneen/balls
FoxxMD@derderwish @nixCraft extremely cursed
drakeerv
ed(1) conference
echopapathere is awkiawki a very lightweight wiki implementation
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Ollie 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦@nixCraft Perl! Please!
Simon Rees 🐧🚴🎛️@nixCraft Java. Not cool, but fast and safe <ducks>
Marco D'Aleo@nixCraft PHP will outlive humans 😂
Jonas Köritz@nixCraft I'm still trying to get into Rust, but I find it about an order of magnitude less productive to write Rust instead of Go, maybe I've just not had my personal epiphany yet but Go just feels a lot more like the pseudo-code I'd jot down to solve a task.
Demiguise
Alan Hicks
Eemon@nixCraft Java Spring
tpaau@nixCraft Rust! 🚀🦀
Sav imagines (typst arc)@nixCraft asp.NET anyone?
grefeng@nixCraft For me: in Backend nothing else than Erlang/Elixir anymore. Had never better performing and maintainable code. Unbeatable the possibility to do up-/downgrades without loosing a single TCP Connection – customers don't realize the change, especially if you only patch some errors.
Richard Holloway@richardjh @nixCraft To stick with your analogy: Erlang/Elixir is more like a small car if you want to run it economically. It even runs on embedded systems (see the Nerves project). It was originally designed for telephone systems that need to run without intervention, even in remote and inaccessible areas. But you can also run it in large clusters on large servers. You decide how much of an "off-road truck" you want it to be.
Kuraiko
Unixorn - 90% Snark by weight@nixCraft Python. Perhaps golang if I have to worry about dependencies
Eric Mabuse@nixCraft cgi-bin
Lionel Bouton@nixCraft Probably depends on the actual constraints. By default I'd choose Ruby but for some special needs I could use C or maybe Rust (either through Ruby bindings or standalone).
Basti@nixCraft Go and Rust
Simon Levesque
Bonkers@nixCraft anything but PHP.