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Eric Brennan
14,490 PointsPreferred language for a social media website?
What coding language would you recommend for a website with user accounts where these users can post photos, videos, and text to their profile, send messages to other users, comment on other users posts, create a news feed, and other basic social media funcionality? Also need to build some type of admin page where the owner of the site can log in and edit the contents of their pages themselves. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!
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Pedro Cabral
33,586 PointsHi Eric,
Any server side language will do, it doesn't matter at all. Usually people will indicate you the one that they are the most familiar with, so just go ahead and pick yourself instead. Treehouse covers a bunch of them: Java with Spark/Spring, Python with Django/Flask, PHP, Ruby (on Rails), C#/ASP.NET or even Javascript in no particular order. It really needs to be your choice and not anyone else's. You might want to pick according to a syntax that feels approachable, or according to job offers in your local area, or perhaps according to google trends. For further information, maybe read the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 for some insight or maybe this might also provide you with some information, but it might be biased. It really depends on you.
Best of luck on your journey.
Eric Brennan
14,490 PointsEric Brennan
14,490 PointsThank you Pedro this was very helpful!