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📣 monstrOCD

Total noob, which tech stack to learn to build GPT API web-apps?


I am learning web development to build a web app. Going through this: terminal -> git -> html -> css -> javascript -> ???? I was planning on learning Ruby on Rails after Javascript. But now with GPT-4 API availability, I am now reconsidering Ruby on Rails for something more (I assume) AI and API oriented like Python + Django.

If you were starting today post GPT-4 availability, what tech stack would you choose to build your web app?

I asked ChatGPT a similar question, but only comparing Ruby to Python, and Django to Ruby on Rails and it suggested Python and Django. But that's because I only asked between the two. My lack of knowledge of other tech stacks is preventing me from asking a better prompt.


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
Certainly if you want to run your own neural nets and do related tasks Python is the easy path forward. API access is easy too.

I write a lot of servers in Python for my own amusement and research, both for AI-adjacent UIs (A smart RSS reader) and for IoT tasks. I have a lot of fun doing it but i don’t know how it would hold up under heavy load, almost everyone in my orbit uses JVM languages for public servers.