Who wins the Battle of the Backends? A comparison of Rust, Go, C#, and Python based on the expertise of an experienced developer.

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This post discusses the pros and cons of various programming languages for web backend development, including Rust, Go, C#, and Python. The author highlights Rust's advantages in dependency handling but notes its ecosystem's immaturity. Go is praised for its environment, but its stagnation in updates is a concern. C# is appreciated for its ease of development but criticized for occasional performance issues. Python is deemed suitable only if there's existing developer expertise. A strong stance is taken against using Javascript for backends.

Battle of the Backends

Brother… the amount of cringe. I load the website, read the article and thought hmmm this sure looks like a WordPress website. And sure enough!
You can’t shit on PHP in an article on a WordPress site…

“These [Ruby and PHP] are dead and should not be a reasonable choice” - at this place, we can stop reading and close the page ;)

Hating PHP while on a site made out of PHP.
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