Server-Side Languages Comparation

• Coldfusion
  • Pros
  • Cons
• PHP
  • Pros
  • Cons
• JAVA
  • Props
• Python
  • Pros
  • Cons
• Node
  • Pros
  • Cons
• Reference

公司很无聊，突然想比较一下，很多种不同的服务端语言, 于是就有了下面这篇文章

Coldfusion

• Based on JAVA

Pros

• Based on Tags, easy to learn, very easy to learn, connot be easier.
• Based on JAVA, easy hosting on Win/Linux
• Better build-in debugging tools
• The query operations are very easy

Cons

• JSON support is not good?
• Price
• Based on JAVA, run virtual machine need more memory/resource
• Powerful server required
• Not free as JAVA, not easy to extend
• Support community is not large

PHP

• Open-source

Pros

• Free!!
• Free 3rd apps
• Free hosting
• Large support community
• Many 3rd libs
• Very low system requirements
• OOP
• Interpreted language, easier and faster relatively

Cons

• Output: needs to wrap the output(something like AJAX in JS), which is clumsy
• Security, required some additional tools for security consideration

JAVA

Props

• OOP
• Better for bigdata analytics
• Cross-platform, can be compiled for many OS3
• Memory safe(GC is good)
• Static type checking, you can find the error in Dev Env

Python

Pros

• Security, better security than php
• More compact and clean syntax for dev
• Many powerful standard lib

Cons

• Speed, slower than C?
• Mobile Dev is not very good
• Memory consumption
• Database access

Node

Pros

• Performance(Real fast)
• Written in JS
• Highly extensible, NodeJS will provide low-level API which is easy to control all.
• AJAX, JSON, HTTP Server are easy to use
• Single-threaded (will create multipld-node process)
• High compatibility of NOSQL
• Rich community-driven open-source modules. NPM is cool!

Cons

• Single thread, would be difficult for complex I/O operation, asynchronos programming is hard To understand
• Not suitable for large and complex Web Apps
• Single-threaded
• Upgrade usually. (May need to rewrite a project for some new changes?)

Reference

• https://www.quora.com/How-does-ColdFusion-compare-to-PHP
• https://www.upwork.com/hiring/development/php-vs-java/
• https://www.upwork.com/hiring/development/php-or-python-for-server-side-development/
• https://www.quora.com/Which-is-better-PHP-or-Python-Why
• http://net-informations.com/python/iq/disadvantages.htm
• https://da-14.com/blog/python-vs-nodejs-which-better-your-project
• https://www.hostreview.com/blog/160311-the-pros-and-cons-of-using-nodejs
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5599024/what-so-different-about-node-jss-event-driven-cant-we-do-that-in-asp-nets-ht