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I'd say, if the site can be rewritten quickly, use the language you're most productive in.

If the site is small and can be ported in < 1 week might be a good rule.

But if your most productive language is PHP, why not leave it?

No reason to use Rails, Node, or Python for this.

i thought new languages are easier,scalable, more libraries etc since they are new. But it will take more than a week for sure to port the site data to new rails/node. Thats why wanted to make sure its well worth switching.

I wouldn't say Python or Rails is more scalable, but the libraries may make certain things easier.

What libraries do you feel you're missing out on?

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