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"Dive into something that compiles. ... Take some time, and write a small webapp in Django, Rails, Play Framework, Node, and anything else that sparks your fancy (and learn their accompanying languages)."

Err... None of that compiles - they get interpreted.

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Ah I probably should have written that clearer --

I started off answering his question but then stopped going in that direction when I figured he could get full-stack experience (which was more what he seemed to be looking for), instead of writing C kernel code somewhere.

This... was not my clearest post

The Play Framework compiles ;) But yea...other than that, wtf.

> Dive into something that compiles. > If you want to continue web dev, Django, Rails, Play Framework, Node, and anything else...

I imagine they're alternative options.

This is exactly what I meant, congratulations on discerning it haha, I got confused about what I wrote also.

But the point stands, those things will give him full stack experience while staying in web land

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