What would be the best language for developing a site like etsy.com?

Gogol

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• Mar 16, 2013

• #21

Crazy or what? if you use ASP.net, either you have to build everything from scratch, or you have to buy expensive DLLs for foolish things such as Menu.. ASP.Net for web sux in my opinion...

botrockets said:

ASP NET MVC is best suited

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raajthemystery

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• Mar 16, 2013

• #22

I think php is the best option, because of open source, easy and less costly

 

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• Mar 20, 2013

• #23

Would recommend Ruby on Rails although it has a high learning curve (I believe Etsy is even built in Rails). However, the time investment is worth it.

 

Gophering

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• Mar 21, 2013

• #24

Hip option - RoR
Hardcore option - Perl
Enterprise option - .NET/Java (probably running on Jetty or some such)
Will need to be recoded at some point option - PHP
"OMG, but it's so 'pythonic'" option - Python

 

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shindig

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• Mar 28, 2013

• #25

Javascript for the front end, php/RoR/Asp/java/perl/node.js(javascript) are options for for working with the database.

Read up on DB normalization if you're designing the DB....

 

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JOBGG

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• Mar 30, 2013

• #26

Hack it up in Ruby on Rails, and if it works and you start to get considerable traffic, do it in Go.