The Internet industry has revolutionized our lives. You can gain access to different services and products that you might require online. The internet industry has itself changed in the past two decades. During its initial days, it was all about having a website and HTML (Hyper-Text Mark up Language) was the primary language used for building websites. However, the internet market has transformed from simple static web-based HTML sites to sophisticated dynamic websites developed on different platforms.
Static websites are used to represent pre-defined set of information such as a company profile. Dynamic websites interact with the user and show dynamic information depending upon the inputs of the user such as online railway reservation website.
The first question that comes in every developer’s mind is to choose a programming language for the project. One must understand that every language has its limitations and the key is to choose a language depending upon your requirements. Some of these factors are:
- Server platform (such as Windows or Unix-based OS)
- Server software (IIS: Internet Information Services for Windows and Apache for Unix-based OS and other OS)
- Programming experience
- Budget of the project
- Choice of database (SQL server, MySQL)
Here are some of the most extensively used programming languages for web application development in the current internet industry.