imageboard

I want to write a good imageboard engine with clean code, to be the preferred choice instead of 4chan's shitty codebase (admit it, it's true) and derivatives. What I am having trouble with, is what language/environment to do it in. Every one has ups and downs. Here are some I can program in:

* C with CGI is very fast (except for fork overheads), but development times are going to be absolute shit.
* C with FastCGI runs even faster than CGI, but the development times are the same as above, and I don't like the added complexity compared to plain old CGI.
* Python is just shit. Period.
* node.js is a cool concept, but I am worried about performance/scalability, as well as the fact that it doesn't seem like a solid platform to bank on; I always feel that in ten years, no one will care about it, and my imageboard will be dead.

There are other options, like perl, but I don't know them yet, so learning overhead must be taken into account.

What should I do, /prog/?

>>46
example: x86 is "cheaper" than lisp-machine.
Terribly bad example. http://yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html

>>47
Supporting dynamic typing and/or numeric tower would require more transistors for every basic operation, wich arent required for C/C++. Hardware assisted JIT and garbage collection would require global changes to MMU and stuff like write barrier isn't cheap.