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I'm pretty much a JavaScript guy, but lately I've been writing a lot of stuff with Ruby for work, so I might give a Rails a try, really depends on what we'd be building.

And while I'm commenting I might as well add at at this point if I wouldn't touch PHP or Java with a long stick. I can barely sleep at night when I think of all the people who still write Java on browser...

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>I can barely sleep at night when I think of all the people who still write Java on browser...

You are probably talking about Java Applets. No one is writing web apps as Java Applets anymore (if you could even call something like that a web app). We're talking about real web apps, and a lot of companies are using Java to build them (e.g. Gmail and a lot of other Google Products, ...). Plus, the JVM is a great runtime for other (more dynamic, less verbose) languages like Scala or Groovy.

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