[Faitas]

Good morning,

Last three days I have been thinking about what is more comfortable for WEB development, Java or Python?

What I think about:

Python: Python is very effectively and flexible, and „that lets you work more quickly“. The python code is more complex than Java, because Java programming language's syntax is like a C/C++ and etc, but Python... is exclusive, like Ruby (I think so, because yesterday I have red an article about Ruby hello world application)

Java: As I already said, Java syntax is like a default. Application wrote with Java is more bigger than Python, for example „Hello world“ application:

In Python:

print "Hello world"

In Java:

class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello world");
    }
}

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So imagine it, when you're writing a Java program like calculator, your code will be like an elephant, however, if you write a calculator application with Python programming language, your program will be more smaller than program with Java.

This was an example for languages comparison. I really don't know if this is true.

So, what is your opition about these two languages? It is very difficult to me to choose right language between two (Java and Python).

[Tayacan]

Well... I don't really like Java, so I'm probably a bit biased. As far as languages go, Python is one of my favourites.

I haven't done web development with Java at all, because I don't like Java, but I've messed about with Django, which is a Python web development framework. Django was really nice to work with, it pretty much abstracts the database away and lets you concentrate on the actual content.

[Faitas]

Hello Tayacan,

So if I choose Python programming language, I won't to choose wrong? Because I am afraid that I'll choose wrong programming language and in the future I won't be able to learn another language quickly. What are you thinking about it, what is your opition about it?

Thanks you a lot.

[Tayacan]

If you learn Python, you'll easily be able to pick up Java, or any other object oriented language. However, if this is your first language, I would consider either not doing web at first, or doing web in a language like PHP, which was designed for that purpose.

Of course, if you learn Java first, you'll also easily be able to learn Python - I just don't really like Java, so I'm gonna recommend Python. Some arguments for Python: It doesn't have so much syntax. In Python, you don't have to worry about missing semicolons and unmatched brackets (at least not as much as in a C-like language like Java), you can concentrate on understanding the logic instead. Also, it comes with a Read-Eval-Print Loop, which makes it easy to experiment with.

Good luck with it :-)

[Faitas]

I don't know how to say that correctly, but with PHP systems, I have 2 years practise, so WEB development isn't a new thing for me.

I want to change programming language, because PHP is not so quickly and flexible than another languages, and if I create a large project, I think about web page load speed as more as I can. So this is a hard work to improve speed in web.

Thanks for your opition Tayacan

I am still waiting another programmers opition and please, vote in poll block

This post has been edited by Faitas: 17 February 2012 - 04:03 AM

[JackOfAllTrades]

You go with whatever YOU are most comfortable with. Between your two choices, I would choose Python because I'm far more comfortable with it (worked with it off and on since the mid-90s) than Java (never really worked with it).

[Shane Hudson]

I am more comfortable with Java.. but for web development I would choose python defintely (although maybe java is still being used a lot but I don't know where). PHP is more accessible as it works on more servers, but I have done Python using Django and it is really nice!

[darek9576]

Dont use Java for web, unless you work in a corporation that uses it. The amount of framework that you need to know in order to do simple stuff is quite big: Hibernate, Spring etc etc. I guess, stick to PHP, although if you are up for the challenge, consider Python + Django. Good luck.

[Faitas]

Thanks for your opition. I choosed Python programming language, and I am going with it.