[LRUG] Language usage stats

[Max Williams]

I guess there are a bunch of sites that still have *"If they have Flash do
this, if not do that" *code.  The Flash block never runs any more but i
guess qualifies the site as "using Flash"

On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM Chong-Yee Khoo via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
wrote:

> 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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