[LRUG] Language usage stats

[Joseph Haig]

I was slightly tongue-in-cheek when I suggested a Wordpress killer but I'm
glad to see there are some out there in active development.

I do think, though, that it would be the only way to overhaul the massive
PHP dominance on the web, if that happens to be anyone's lifetime goal.

On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 18:17, Joseph Haig <josephhaig at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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