[LRUG] Language usage stats

Joseph Haig josephhaig at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 04:54:25 PST 2026


Perhaps this is old news to most people but I found this interesting.

I looked up the back-end language stats for websites after hearing someone
ask who uses PHP anymore. I remember seeing some years ago that half the
web runs on PHP and I see that it is now well above that:

* https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language

I suppose this isn't a surprise, thanks to Wordpress, Drupal and others.
What I did find surprising is that Ruby is still top of "the rest" (albeit
a long way behind PHP) and it is apparently growing (albeit slowly). I
honestly thought that Node and Python would be higher.

So clearly what we need is a viable Wordpress alternative written Ruby so
that we can narrow the gap!

Regards,

Joe
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