Hello all,
I love jQuery and according to Google Trends:
its popularity is still rising, which is great!
I've been using Wordpress + PHP in conjunction with jQuery plugins.
According to Google Trends, Wordpress is still rising in popularity, whereas PHP - I don't know - am a bit worried. To make things worse, two top-notch developers I know say Python is the most modern and powerful language around and the way to go.
I've basically got two or three main questions (they should be interesting for lot's of people):
1) Is it worth switching from PHP to Python? (I'm currently only married to Wordpress with little own stuff in PHP, but it would be a bit of a migration. My webhost supports both PHP and Python for free)
2) Is there something like "Wordpress for Python"? Or even a better CMS in the Python world?
3) Is jQuery biased in its communications to either PHP/Python? Maybe someone could briefly illustrate, what an Ajax handshake with Python looks like. (With PHP and thanks to the beauty of jQuery it's really easy)
You might be asking - what about Java, which is the top-notch programming language worldwide?
There's three reasons I'm not inclined to Java:
- Google itself seems to prefer Python over Java in the long run (I saw so in recruiting ads)
- Java is sort-of now "owned" by Oracle whereas I understand that Python and PHP are not at all proprietary and thus free to evolve with higher dynamics
- Python and PHP are geared more at the web-frontend (which is my current inclination), whereas Java is geared at everything imaginable.
Thanks in advance!