[LRUG] Language usage stats

[Joseph Haig]

Any instances of 'Best Viewed In Internet Explorer' in the wild?

On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 17:15, Max Williams via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
wrote:

> 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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