Ask HN: Recommendation for a .net dev: Python, Ruby, or PHP

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by brianhama • 14 years ago

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facorreia• 14 years ago

I've been working with .NET for 10 years. I've also developed smaller projects with Java, PHP, Ruby and Python, among other languages. I would recommend you take a good look at Python. Read the Zen of Python[1]. If it makes sense to you, try it.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

lizardking• 14 years ago

From a language standpoint Ruby and Python are certainly more interesting languages than PHP. Most .Net devs I talk to find php a bit kludgey. I recommend installing a virtual Ubuntu machine on your windows machine and playing with Python for a few days. I found "Dive into Python" to be a great resource for learning http://www.diveintopython.net/.

From there, if web is what you are interested in, take a look at django. The django book and official django tutorial are both great places to start. Happy hacking!

tonylampada• 14 years ago

I'd recommend Python and Django too. I've been developing JEE applications for 8 years now and recently started a project (www.freedomsponsors.org) with Django. Django makes things so simpler and faster to code. I'm in love with it!

If you take that on, I'd also invite you to do a little collaboration on it - FS is free on Github (github.com/freedomsponsors). It might give you a feeling of what's it like. And I could definitely use some help :)

WayneDB• 14 years ago

Why not try all three over a few weeks? It doesn't take long to get them installed in order to play around.

Ask HN: Recommendation for a .net dev: Python, Ruby, or PHP

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