Setting up a social media network..

Question

what is the best programming language to use in setting up a social media network?

Answer 1

social networking sites are interactive and dynamic sites which require you to understand and apply the 3-tier architure of web programming
1. client
2. server
3. backend

client side is the interface that your client interact with. you will need the knowledge and application of html, CSI, javascript, and css. Jquery, Ajax.... are also of advantage

server is the business intelligence. it links the clients side to the back-end. php is a good and common server language

back-end also known as database is the third part of web programming and it's were all the clients information are stored. structured querry language are best for this and a good example is MySQL.

Answer 2

PHP

Answer 3

There is no "better" language for this. The choice of a language is based on the requirements you have and your development team or knowledge. An example of this are the languages that many sites currently use (Scala, PHP, Hack, Ruby, etc).

There are other factors that in the future may require you to do a migration, but that will depend on how scalable your project is and the number of users.

Answer 4

You will need multiple languages anyway, at least JavaScript html and css but also stuff for the backend, if you don’t want to use nodejs you need python or php or ruby for the backend