What to write a demon on

Question

PHP

There is a need to write a demon that will perform various manipulations with databases. Now this is provided by a cyclic call to a php script from bash, which is somewhat crooked (in the sense that such tasks should not be solved in php).
To implement such a task on the pluses, IMHO, bust.
Please advise someone.

So far, apart from Erlang, nothing has come to mind, but it has dynamic typing, which I would like to avoid.
I added Python applicants to the piggy bank, but again, dynamic typing, which I don’t want.

Answer 1

Why don't you like dynamic typing?

Answer 2

What to write a demon on

In Ada language? :)
But seriously, why not just run a direct query from the interpreter (mysql --execute="" or < script.sql)? There, you can transfer it through the pipeline, and you don’t need to do any processing and compile anything

Answer 3

If you want php - phpdaemon
In general, node.js is a good solution.

Answer 4

If you don't like php, use bash instead. From a simple one, it can also be perl or python.

Answer 5

Need a simple scripting language? Well, try groovy, or something.
Of course, it is not as easy as Javascript, but its typing is very static (only implicit).

Answer 6

php + php_libevent - the best option
if you really need the performance of a daemon, then C / C ++
is a lot of examples on the net

Answer 7

If you definitely need a static language, but not c / pluses, then look towards Java / C #.

Answer 8

Java + Quartz. Time tested! Take only a lightweight container, not JBOSS, it will be easier.

Answer 9

I will suggest Tcl.

Answer 10

In general, on modern pluses with modern libs (mysql ++), working with a muscle turns out to be just surprisingly pleasant. =)
So on what you know how - on that and write.

Answer 11

Is there any point in an external application?
DBMS support task execution (JOB in Oracle, EVENT in MySQL, etc.)

Answer 12

That means
> different manipulations with databases.
?
Is it recalculation of statistics once per hour? Or accepting user data? That is, the work of a regular website?
Decide on a task. If closer to the first option, then I would choose python - it is very convenient to write, everything works fine.
My task is this: from several suppliers, data is taken in XML form, parsed, added to the database.

Answer 13

By the way, regarding dynamic typing, there are unit tests, integration tests. You still have to write them, so you should not dismiss Python for this reason, nevertheless, the development speed is higher.