[LRUG] Language usage stats

[Denny]

On 2026-03-05 12:54, Joseph Haig via Chat wrote:
> 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!

The last time I looked the problem was that there were too many to 
choose from, rather than too few :)

~10 years ago, before I started rewriting ShinyCMS in Rails, Comfortable 
Mexican Sofa sounded quite good to me (not just the name, although that 
too). I don't how it's doing currently, but it looks like it still 
appears on CMS recommendation lists.

Alternatively you're welcome to join me in making ShinyCMS better :)

https://github.com/denny/ShinyCMS-ruby

https://shinycms.org/

It's pretty much a one-man project at this point though, a few valued 
contributors notwithstanding.