
<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Shockingly, the associated page for “client-side programming languages for websites” shows that Flash is still being used for 2.5% of websites!</div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/client_side_language">https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/client_side_language</a><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5 Mar 2026, at 20:54, Joseph Haig via Chat <chat@lists.lrug.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Perhaps this is old news to most people but I found this interesting.<div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>* <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language">https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>So clearly what we need is a viable Wordpress alternative written Ruby so that we can narrow the gap!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Joe</div></div>

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