[Cialug] What lang for writing a service?

[Matthew Nuzum]

Thanks for your sacrifice, David. :-)

Actually, the comments for Python jive with what I'd thought. I don't know
how ubiquitous Node.js is, but Python seems to be pretty much everywhere.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:51 AM David Bierce <david at bierce.org> wrote:

> I prefer Python as it has as replaced perl in ubiquity. Py3 should be
> everywhere now and most code isn't that fancy.  Package manament for most
> imports can be handled by the OS package manager.  Depending on your
> complexity I think centos even has package support for virtenv.  With node
> you'll be using an interesting installer.  It really just depends on if
> libraries are what you want.
>
> Unless there is good reason I always default to python....part of me just
> died saying that :)
> On Dec 7, 2015 10:49 AM, "Matthew Nuzum" <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
> > I need to write a service and I can use either Python or Node.js. I'm
> > picking these because: a) I know them well, and b) necessary libraries
> are
> > readily available.
> >
> > Can you think of any pros and cons for choosing one or the other?
> > (regarding Python, I *think* I can write the code to work equally well in
> > Python 3.x and 2.x)
> >
> > My goal is for this tool I'm writing to be useful for other web
> developers
> > to help manage their servers.
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