What is the best programming language for high load web projects?

Question

Highload

I got the impression that the best thing to do for a project that will later have to handle a large flow of visitors is to start writing it right away in Erlang (well, or, for example, Node.JS). Am I right?
The nuances of who personally likes which language more and how easy it will be then to find programmers to support this project in the future, I propose to leave in this case "outside the brackets".

Answer 1

Answer: not right.

Answer 2

What device is the fastest way to eat a lot of food?)) You assumed that it was a spoon, but then they bring you a steak.
YP is selected for the project. If you are focused on high-level high-frequency trading, then you will even need to buy special hardware and use specific databases, for example, kdb +.
When choosing a PL, in fact, you choose an infrastructure that should primarily solve business problems. For example, you did freak out and wrote a project in Erlang, ok, sooner or later - you will run into hardware, for HL - this is quite a normal situation. From a business point of view, an experienced Erlangist is quite expensive, and a team is even more so, it is much cheaper to choose another PL with a large community + cheaper specialists, even with a few extra servers.

Answer 3

Based on your data, the language is not important. It is important to correctly configure the server.

Answer 4

yes, on any you can have
the most highly loaded site Facebook is written in php
VK is also in php

Answer 5

I think you need to think not about the language, but about what solutions will form the basis of your application. For example, you can look at such a thing as Vert.x