What would you recommend as a starting language to build a MVP? The extent of my experience is html/css, manipulating wordpress php files, and a weekend hacking together a couple of learning projects (a PHP blogging platform and a "rank this list of items by number of upvotes/this number" website).
Given my past experience I was planning to use PHP as it is the only language I have any experience with and while the functionality I'm shooting for is totally different, I don't envision it being any more difficult to code than the blogging platform. I will be interacting with a database.
Are the other options as easy to pick up as PHP? Is it as easy to google for help?
I'd say that using Ruby with Sinatra is really easy to pick up - the documentation of Ruby itself is great and Sinatra is also documented really well, not that i think it's particularly complicated. Use an easy template-engine or stick with the default (erb) and (at least for the beginning) the sqlite-gem.
Of course, that was my impression given my prior knowledge, which of course influenced my start with that environment. But i found it to be great almost instantly.
Given my past experience I was planning to use PHP as it is the only language I have any experience with and while the functionality I'm shooting for is totally different, I don't envision it being any more difficult to code than the blogging platform. I will be interacting with a database.
Are the other options as easy to pick up as PHP? Is it as easy to google for help?