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Startup. Not looking for a job.

Looking to figure out what the best hackers in the world think are good tools to use and then start using those. (Since I have to most-likely learn new tools anyway).

Reading HN, it seems people work with Rails, Python (Django/Pylons/WebPy/?) and Node.js

Basically wanted the experience of people who built something more than toy projects minus the flame war :-)



I spent the last 2 months building an app on rails and I've really enjoyed it. The available plugins and docs are great. With a bit more of a python background, I've really enjoyed Ruby. The ruby way of doing things seems more intuitive to me now, and I struggle a little bit when programming in python (not much, but I feel pythons stricter syntax and grammar to be a little bit of friction)

Someone else here compared ruby to python. They said ruby is quicker and smoother for UI programming, python is faster and better developed for computation. I think that answer is dead on.




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