Which language and framework would you use today?
25th December 2012
My answer to Which language and framework would you use today? on Quora
Unless I had a very good reason to use something else (a pure websocket/real-time collaboration app perhaps) I’d go with stock Django on PostgreSQL and maybe a bit of Redis. Simple, powerful, stable and works reliably.
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