[LRUG] Language usage stats

[Joseph Haig]

... and if it is not obvious, this was meant to be a reply to Denny's email.

(One day I'll learn how to use a computer)

On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 18:29, Joseph Haig <josephhaig at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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