Ask HN: If you could start from scratch, would you still use LAMP?
I have a bit of time and a bit of financing (enough to give me a "runway", not enough to say "fuck you").<p>Now I want to explore some ideas from more than ten years ago that have been made possible with things like the iPhone, iPad, and their derivatives. I imagine a fancy-looking front-end, probably starting with the iPad, connected to some database/business operations on the back-end, for small businesses in a certain industry. I've thought about a native iPad app for the front-end but figure it'd be both safer and cheaper to build a web app instead. Also, if someone wants to run the front-end on an Android device, I want this to be easy to arrange.<p>What toolset at the back-end would you recommend for someone who can start with zero legacy code? I am aware that you throw the first version away and then rebuild anyway, still I'd like to use the "right", future-proof technologies from the get-go.<p>So for the front-end, I suppose there's the holy trinity of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; but for the back-end? Is LAMP still in use/the way to go, or should I invest in something else?