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I support a VB.NET web app with dynamic page generation (as opposed to controls on a control surface, and a second C#.NET web app with the control surface page generation.

.NET is still the king of web app development.

25 posted on 06/03/2014 7:44:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)

No doubt, .NET Framework was built specifically to support web apps and services.

27 posted on 06/03/2014 7:53:43 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)

".NET is still the king of web app development."

.NET (or .NYET :) has never been the top choice for web app development, since it's tied to Windows. Linux and Unix power most of the big sites, with Java providing the horsepower for "enterprise class" development.

Java has been the #1 language in terms of jobs for quite a while.

Here's a chart from an analysis of 45,000 job postings on Twitter for the last 12 months:

From: http://www.sitepoint.com/best-programming-language-learn-2014/

Back on topic, I think Swift looks pretty darned good. I hope open source implementations are allowed.

34 posted on 06/03/2014 1:56:05 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty

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