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Exactly. I am currently leaning towards erlang. But then, Clojure looks impressive too. And well I can't possibly deny the absolute awesomeness of CL. There are other in the hitlist too...SmallTalk, Scala etc etc. What do you guys use and why did you choose what you did?

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I still prefer Python/Django, personally. Unless you need to do Comet you're just dealing with normal request/response cycles and I still think pre-fork single-threaded webservers work just fine for that purpose. Until I'm totally fluent in one of the others (and until their libraries catch up with Python) I don't think I could choose one and feel pragmatic.

For comet you always have Orbited. I am not fluent in any (Have written small programs in a few of them), but I want to develop in a functional language. The think I am most interested in a powerful language with a web framework/library which could take care of most of the mundane stuff related to web programming. Also features like ORM etc would be really helpful

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