What's a good swiss-army framework for the next 5 years?

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What's a good swiss-army framework for the next 5 years?

Basically, we want to use no flash, and eschew php where possible (for marketing reasons).

Right now, I'm looking at Ruby on Rails and like what I see... but I'm not really a programmer, having working primarily with Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla for the past 10 years.

Our sites need to have a lot of custom apps built into them (video uploading and galleries, user accounts, employee time logging, and more) with consistant looks. We don't expect to have any high-traffic sites (nothing in excess of 500 unique views in a day).

Anyone think that Rails is Not a good choice for the next 5 years or so?

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HTML5

While we can't predict the future, we could work in learning well the currently available technologies.

OscarRyz 2010-06-25 00:16:11

HTML5 rocks, but in no way does it influence the choice of a server-side language and framework (at least among ones that are sufficiently flexible to serve whatever HTML, JS and CSS they're given as "templates", rather than "synthesize" them as they go;-). None of the frameworks discussed in this Q and its As lacks that flexibility (except, I guess, Silverlight -- and possibly ASP.NET, I'm less familiar with that one).

Alex Martelli 2010-06-25 01:16:13

@Alex Oh, that was for serverside too? mmhh make it HTML6 rocks then ;) How knows, iPhone 4 has more capacity than the first iMac 10 yrs ago. 10 yrs. ago, Java was struggling to be accepted as a mainstream platform. Chrome didn't exist ( nor half of google products ) and Internet explorer... mmmhh nahh that haven't change too much :P

OscarRyz 2010-06-25 01:41:09

Rails will still be around in 5 years. So will C# (.net), silverlight etc. The Microsoft stack is too widely used to vanish.

Frenchie 2010-06-25 00:20:14

Like FoxPro ...

belisarius 2010-06-25 01:03:22

+1 A:

I'd say python/Django over RoR.

If you weren't avoiding PHP, Zend would be a safe(ish) bet for the next 5 years (probably).

Mind you, you're by your own admission not a programmer and you're at least partially basing an engineering/technical decision on marketing (OMFG), so I'd be more worried about you lasting 5 years than any framework you choose...

Pete 2010-06-25 00:23:23

I'm curious -- _why_ would you say python/Django over RoR? They both seem to be very popular and technically solid -- so what's your _motivation_ for suggesting one over the other (rather than just making sure that the OP is aware of both)?

Alex Martelli 2010-06-25 00:52:28

Pete 2010-06-25 01:03:28

@Pete, thanks for clarifying. BTW, when Google chose Python, Ruby did not exist yet (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-python-at-google/2561008#2561008 -- my second most popular answer ever, BTW;-), and, while I'm sure we'd chose it again today, the reason I can be really sure is that so many prominent Pythonistas have been hired at Google over the course of the years since that language choice!-)

Alex Martelli 2010-06-25 01:12:57

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