Newfag Needs Help

Okay, tech gurus, I've got a serious newfag issue in terms of learning how to website.

I know what I need to learn for front-end, but in looking at all the shit for back-end programming languages, I'm at a loss; everything states that no one program is "ultimate," because they're all "the best" according to what your needs are.

I need a programming language for a user-generated content website that's going to need a massive storage database for multimedia. Basically, if it would work for deviantart but with perhaps more muscle, that's what I need.

- Must handle thousands of users
- Must handle shittingdickloads of content
- Must have libraries and archives

So, anons, what backend programming language must I master to accomplish this?

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This has gotten people into trouble, e.g. Twitter, but try not to worry yourself with performance right now. From your post, it seems as if you lack programming experience, or at least with this particular area of programming.

Go easy on yourself and your creation at first, pick something which is easily used. Rails can let you push something out of the door quickly and learn as you go, even if it's somewhat hard to understand what you're actually doing. A kindred spirit (a curmudgeonly friend) says that Django is ``too complex'', but I doubt it'd be harder.

You probably already know that you should stay away from PHP.

If you insist on fixating on this before knowing what you'll be able to pull off, go with Java. At least you'll get help with ease.

If you really want to take a risk, though I can't recommend it from experience, Yesod, for Haskell, could be what you want. At least its server component seems to be blazing fast, and it's the ``safest'' (memory and type safe) language around which at least some people use, as it is for EXPERT PROGRAMMERS. Not many, though, and that's the risk. You should know why that's risky.