What web language should I learn next?

[Syringer]

What will be the biggest thing in the next 2-3 years?

I'm clueless so definitely suggest some choices.

 

[FrustratedUser]

English?

 

[Skeeedunt]

I'd stick with frontpage.

 

[chrisms]

Hindi

 

[FrustratedUser]

I heard Spider is the shiznit.

 

[Juno]

your mom

 

[QED]

None of the above.

C# would get my vote.

 

[RichardE]

Spanish is sexah

 

[Martin]

What do you know already? AJAX by itself is pretty easy (with the Prototype library, you'll be up and running in 5 mins) but learning some heavy-duty Javascript (AJAX, DOM, Objects-oriented JS etc) will be the most useful of those you listed.

Ruby seems excellent if you want to write your own applications, but if you're after marketable skills, Java or C# would probably be much more useful.

 

[mugs]

AJAX is not a language, it's a concept.

Ruby on Rails is a framework. Ruby is a language.

No idea what Flex is.

 

[SKORPI0]

Web Spider :laugh:

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Martin
What do you know already?

This is key, isn't it?

I agree that .NET or Java is the way to go. I'm so glad I'll be moving away from Perl in favor of Java in the near future - I'll actually have a marketable skill! (Perl is great for back-end stuff, but not so great for web stuff). I did .NET in my last job, I'd love to do that more but our customers are all about Unix.

 

[Zugzwang152]

AJAX. Ruby isn't really a marketable skill, much like there is very little corporate demand for PHP knowledge. I would go with .NET if possible. An all-Microsoft IT shop can do some interesting things.

 

[zerocool1]

what about twisted? its the python web framework