What Is The Best Programming Language For Your Web Product

MobiDev Experts Day 2016

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1. What Is The Best
   Programming Language
   For Your Web Product?
   

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2. Ievgen Kuzminov
   http://stdout.in
   @iJackUA
   7+ years
   in Web Development
   Ruby Team Lead
   in MobiDev
   Author of
   http://rwdtow.stdout.in
   

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3. Dilemma
   How do we choose programming
   language for a product ?
   ❏ There is no “bad” languages
   ❏ The “best” lang - is the lang you know!
   ❏ Ecosystem does matter
   

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4. Speed vs Quality vs Price
   Requests per Second in “Hello World”
   has nothing to do here...
   

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5. Recent decade of The Web Dev
   

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6. The World Has Changed
   

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7. WAT?
   ❏ Backend ~> Frontend
   ❏ Relational ~> Denormalized
   ❏ Majestic Monolith ~> Microservices
   ❏ Static ~> Realtime
   ❏ a lot more ...
   

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8. A new choice
   ❏ Application criterias
   ❏ Ecosystem: packages, tools, community
   ❏ Evolution roadmap
   ❏ A bit of personal “taste”
   

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9. Master of “yellow” titles
   ❏ PHP is not so awful
   ❏ Ruby is not so awesome
   ❏ Node.JS is not so almighty
   

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10. Master of “yellow” titles
    ❏ PHP is not so awful
    ❏ Ruby is not so awesome
    ❏ Node.JS is not so almighty
    ❏ “This city needs a hero”
    

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11. Language
    

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12. Language
    ❏ Evolution
    ❏ Syntax
    ❏ DSL
    ❏ Metaprogramming
    

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13. Language
    ❏ Execution flow (sync, async)
    ❏ Performance
    ❏ Concurrency
    ❏ Debug
    

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14. Ecosystem
    

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15. Ecosystem
    ❏ Packages
    ❏ Web frameworks
    ❏ Tests
    ❏ Daemons
    ❏ Deployment
    ❏ IDE
    

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16. Human Resources
    

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17. Human Resources
    ❏ Entry level. Familiarity.
    ❏ Skills
    ❏ Poka-yoke
    ❏ Hiring
    

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18. ❏ Low entry barrier
    ❏ Bigger market
    ❏ Cheaper
    Developers:
    ❏ Pure PHP ~> Frameworks
    ❏ Harder to filter skilled devs
    NB!
    

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19. ❏ Quick start with Rails
    ❏ MVP oriented
    ❏ Harder to scale
    Developers:
    ❏ Solely Rails oriented
    ❏ Easier to filter skilled devs
    NB!
    

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20. ❏ Aimed to API/Realtime
    ❏ Node.JS is everywhere
    ❏ Harder to maintain backend
    Developers:
    ❏ Come from Frontend
    ❏ Closer to Full-Stack
    NB!
    

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21. Dark Horses
    of Web Development
    

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22. Elixir, Go, Closure and others
    ❏ Compiled (fast)
    ❏ Much better performance
    ❏ Close to system level
    ❏ Functional approaches
    ❏ Multi-core concurrency
    

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23. ❏ Erlang + OTP
    ❏ Functional
    ❏ Ruby-like syntax
    ❏ Friendly web framework
    ❏ Metaprogramming
    ❏ Scaling
    ❏ Fault tolerance
    NB!
    http://elixir-lang.org
    

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24. A new choice (once again!)
    ❏ Application criterias
    ❏ Ecosystem: packages, tools, community
    ❏ Evolution roadmap
    ❏ A lot of personal “taste”
    

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25. Brief conclusion
    ❏ PHP: “classic” web portal
    ❏ Ruby: web portal + background jobs
    ❏ Node.JS: isomorphic app, API + SPA
    ❏ Elixir: your next “world class” pet-project
    

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26. Thank you! e.kuzminov@mobidev.biz
    http://stdout.in
    @iJackUA
    Questions ?
    

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