[LRUG] Language usage stats

[Chong-Yee Khoo]

Shockingly, the associated page for “client-side programming languages for websites” shows that Flash is still being used for 2.5% of websites!

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/client_side_language

> On 5 Mar 2026, at 20:54, Joseph Haig via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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