Python up front. Java in the back.

I’ve always thought that the ideal web development platform would be comprised of a dynamically typed language in the presentation tier supported by a statically typed language where the business and persistence logic lives. It just never made sense to me to use a statically typed language for building web user-interfaces considering that there’s very little gain to be had from type-safety.

The news today that Sun hired two key Python programmers makes me hopeful that they’re thinking what I’m thinking.