A recent informal poll carried out by Hacker News, a subsidiary of the pacific venture capital firm Y Combinator revealed that the most favored web development framework today is Django. After Django respondents favored Ruby on Rails and PHP’s cake framework and other PHP based custom frameworks came in third.

It is fascinating to see the number of tools and frameworks that current web developers have at their disposal. Apart from the favorite Django and Ruby on Rails, developers are no longer restricted to technologies such as ASP or ASP.NET that cost a lot to implement or even learn. Some of the other frameworks and technologies available today and are popular include Catalyst, a Perl based framework, Erlang backends, Pylons and Cherrypy. Apart from being spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing a framework, most developers also roll out their own custom frameworks to make things work they want them to, negating some of the disadvantages that come with already public frameworks. Therefore, no longer do developers have to worry about finding the perfect language to create the perfect project; if it does not do it for you, then you create something new to fit the requirements.