Which language for which project? PHP, Go, Python, JS — a pragmatic guide
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The question comes up at every new project kickoff: "what are we building this in?" More often than not, the answer is driven by what the team already knows, or by whatever is trending on HackerNews this month. Neither is a particularly good method. I've seen a CRM written in Rust because the CTO watched a conference talk, a high-traffic API built in PHP because "that's what we've always done", and a data pipeline in Node.js because the front-end team refused to learn anything else. All three we