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Which backend languages do you use?

Nandini S Hinduja on March 04, 2024

I have recently started learning backend development using Go and it made me curious as to what are the backend languages which other people use. ...
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Q sageHint

Go

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Ben Halpern

Favorite and least favorite language features?

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Lotfi Jebali

where ?

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Nandini S Hinduja

great!

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WARRIOR

Java

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Nandini S Hinduja

great!

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Camilo

Elixir is my main language of choice.
Great for Web apps, Mobile Apps, IOT, Machine Learning and More!.

A wonderful alternative to Javascript, Go, Ruby and Python.

:D

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Hermes Santos

Surely a language that i will learn someday!!! The prettiest logo among all the programming language btw

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Nandini S Hinduja

Great to know!

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Nandini S Hinduja

Nice, I didn't know about Elixir. Will have to research about it now!

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Nando AM

PHP (with Laravel)

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Hermes Santos

Same.

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Nandini S Hinduja

Superb!

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Nandini S Hinduja

Nice!

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Lucas Latorre

Python with Django

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Nandini S Hinduja

superb!

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Alain D'Ettorre
  • Node.js
  • Go

But I don't work on backend professionally at the moment.

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Nandini S Hinduja

Nice!

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AstrixGame • Edited

I'm using Node.js and C++ for high preformance

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Mochamad Naofal

😲 wow amazing, just curious how to manage the portion between the node and c++ ?

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AstrixGame

If I use both in one project, I use an internal socket or C++ as a thread or vice versa.

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codeDude64

Awesome Have you ever written about it?

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AstrixGame • Edited

Not yet, maybe in future :)

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Nandini S Hinduja

super!

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Nedinator

I've mostly used typescript over the past few years but switched to go and it's been awesome. Using fiber for the current project; but I heard the stdlib had some nice updates recently that make it more viable to handle routes. Been meaning to look into that.

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Nandini S Hinduja

Great!

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Ben Halpern

Mostly Ruby here

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Nandini S Hinduja

amazing!

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Moray Macdonald

Working on 3 different projects with 3 different tech stacks at the moment! The one I've been on the longest is TypeScript, and it's fine. It's not a perfect backend language but it does the job pretty well, and working in the same language as the frontend really reduces the amount of context switching I have to do. The project is HUGE though and it feels like it needs to be broken up, which I think would be a struggle. At least it's not in JavaScript!

The next is in Python which is mostly quick to develop in, but having spent most of my career working with strongly-typed languages, weak typing feels like an unnecessary complication in a backend language.

My latest project is in C# which is a great backend language IMO. You can really feel the work that's gone into refining it over the last 20+ years. It's so easy it's almost boring! The downside is that while the language is amazing, Visual Studio is not. Its code completion (even without CoPilot) is the best in the business but the UI feels like a relic from 2005. It's not nearly as fast to get around as VSCode. Once the project is a bit more mature I'm looking forward to trying it out on different IDEs on different OSes.

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Nandini S Hinduja

Nice to know, thanks for sharing!

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Pau Riosa

Elixir

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Nandini S Hinduja

Great!

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Lucas Boillot

Python at work, and mostly PHP + Node(JS) on personal projects

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GosuTeacher

Why do you prefer php over python (given is the language of choice for personal projects)?

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Nandini S Hinduja

Nice!

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Nikhil Chandra Roy

python with django

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Nandini S Hinduja

Amazing!

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Erik

php

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Nandini S Hinduja

Wonderful!

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Bernd Wechner

Mostly Python.

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Nandini S Hinduja

super!

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Assis Zang

I've been using C# for the last 8 years, but now I'm learning Clojure and F# 😊

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Nandini S Hinduja

great!

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Ankit Kumar Rai

Express js

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Nandini S Hinduja

super!

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ayugup93

C# as a backend language

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Nandini S Hinduja

nice to know!

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Prasad Saya

I use Java and JavaScript (NodeJS).

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Nandini S Hinduja

great!

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fernancodes

Java

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Nandini S Hinduja

nice!

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THE NAME IS KUMAR RAM KUMAR

NodeJS & PHP

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Nandini S Hinduja

great!

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includenull

I used to work a lot with PHP, now TypeScript, and dabbling with some Go.

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Nandini S Hinduja

super!

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Jörg Plate • Edited

Java (back when i worked)

Right now i'm experimenting with Go, Rust and Type-/JavaScript.

On my ToDo List: Elixier. Maybe C++ (again). Probably not Perl/Python

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Nandini S Hinduja

good to know!

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Alex/Kreaker

Java->Python->Go

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Nandini S Hinduja

amazing!

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Matheus Pinheiro • Edited

i'm currently working with node.js and c#

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Nandini S Hinduja

awesome!

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Javier Guerra

Everything new is done with Elixir, before that, Ruby

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Nandini S Hinduja

great to know!

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IngénieurDev

Java and php

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Nandini S Hinduja

nice to know!

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M

go ;)

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Nandini S Hinduja

nice

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Arnaud Dagnelies • Edited

Mostly Java, but recently also experimenting with Typescript "on the edge", and sometimes Python for small side projects

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Nandini S Hinduja

nice!

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Kaamkiya

In order of how much I use them:

  • Go
  • Deno - JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Python + Flask
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Nandini S Hinduja

Great!

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rakesh

.net core

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Nandini S Hinduja

Magnificent!

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elanatframework • Edited

We use C# under CodeBehind framework.

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Nandini S Hinduja

Need to research about CodeBehind framework, didn't know about it!

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Jake Lundberg

PHP at work, mostly Javascript personally.

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Nandini S Hinduja

Awesome!

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Chris Dawkins

No Rust devs?

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Nandini S Hinduja

yes Rust is great too!

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Reuben J. Sonnenberg

F#, C#, and Haskell. All new stuff is F#.

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Nandini S Hinduja

What is F#?

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Gabriel Orie

PHP

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Nandini S Hinduja

Awesome!

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Satyam Anand

Node JS 🙋

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Nandini S Hinduja

Super!

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🌵azzd🌵

C#

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Nandini S Hinduja

amazing!

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whosee

Right now Python Flask, but plan on Kotlin Ktor in the future

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Nandini S Hinduja

awesome!

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Lincoln Quinan Junior

Using C# for almost two decades now 😱

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Nandini S Hinduja

Wow!

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Hüzeyfe TAŞ

PHP ( using codeigniter framework, I think we move codebase to laravel next year)

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Nandini S Hinduja

great!

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bo1522313455

Java

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Nandini S Hinduja

great!

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Per Starke

Pythooooooon

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Nandini S Hinduja

nice!

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Ben

I use python (django)

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Nandini S Hinduja

Awesome!

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Aathil ali

I use Node js and Php

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Nandini S Hinduja

amazing!

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David Lima • Edited

Go, nodejs

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Nandini S Hinduja

super!