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    <p>I'm an experienced developer who has been working with .Net for the last 5 years or so. As I've been assembling an application stack for a startup idea I've had, I've noticed that many of the supporting tools that I would like to use are either flaky or have become commercial. As I have no revenue, and factoring in the cost for for Visual Studio, SQL Server (yes, I know about Biz Spark), etc, and I've suddenly realised that I should be looking elsewhere.</p> <p>So, without further ado, here are my requirements and nice-to-haves. The obvious front-runners are Java and Ruby, but I'm happy to hear any other suggestions (Object oriented and compiled preferred but not required. PHP not welcome here).</p> <p>Overall</p> <ul> <li>Mandatory: Supported by shared hosting to get started</li> <li>Desirable: Should not be too fiddly to get working (just work when components are plugged in)</li> </ul> <p>Framework</p> <ul> <li>Mandatory: Modern mvc framework</li> <li>Mandatory: Fine-grained control over html output</li> </ul> <p>Code Quality</p> <ul> <li>Mandatory: Logging framework</li> <li>Desirable: Static analysis (complexity, etc)</li> <li>Desirable: Generate UML diagrams of code structure</li> <li>Desirable: Test coverage reports</li> </ul> <p>OOP Stuff</p> <ul> <li>Mandatory: ORM that handles semi-deep hierarchies, incl many-to-many relationships.</li> <li>Mandatory: Mock framework</li> <li>Mandatory: IOC container (probably its own category)</li> </ul> <p>IDE</p> <ul> <li>Mandatory: Formatting assistance (indentation)</li> <li>Mandatory: debugging: break points, variable inspection</li> <li>Desirable: auto-completion: VS's intellisense is really nice. This is close to mandatory</li> <li>Desirable: debugging: in-place code execution (immediate window), move current frame backwards</li> <li>Desirable: Test framework integration</li> </ul> <p>Code Quality</p> <ul> <li>Mandatory: Test framework</li> <li>Desirable: Code coverage</li> <li>Desirable: Generate documentation from code comments</li> </ul> <p>Build</p> <ul> <li>Desirable: One click pull from SVN, build, test, code coverage, code documentation</li> <li>Desirable: Continuous integration (for later when we, er, get really big)</li> </ul> <p>Other notes: I'm happy using Linux (would be quite refreshing!). I'm assuming MySQL for DB, as I don't require ACID compliance (and it's probably ACID by now anyway), and SVN for source control.</p> <p>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>Edit: Currently leaning towards Sinatra, as it looks very elegant, but allows the user to have as much or as little control as they want. And I will select an answer when I think the answers have stopped.</p>
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    1. COA few of the requirements seem MS-centric, and might stifle your choices. You might benefit more by opening up a little. For instance, IoC doesn't make as much sense in Ruby due to the language's design. I know you think you need it, but experienced Rubyists have more idiomatic solutions than IoC (trust me, or google Jamis Buck RubyConf and watch the talk). Similarly, auto-completion isn't as big of a deal in Ruby or Python because overall LOCs are much lower.
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    2. COI'm pretty open. Perhaps it's what I'm used to. But autocomplete is nice ... it's about discovering APIs rather than saving keystrokes. It's hard to do in dynamic languages, though.
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