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Why wouldn’t it?

• tyingq 5y ago
  I'm sure it does, but that then mostly changes the meaning of "most used...language" to mean most used by end users, versus most used by developers. Which I suppose you could argue, since it's likely passing through apache/nginx, which is fronting wordpress. So maybe 'C' is the most used.
  • daneel_w 5y ago
    The article emphasizes "server-side", which to me translates into "the most deployed..."
    • BiteCode_dev 5y ago
      Yes, I don't say it's wrong, I'm just curious.
  • NovemberWhiskey 5y ago
    ... and indeed PHP itself is written in C. They say they use publicly available information about sites, plus scraping metadata from the sites, but do not reveal the blend between those sources. If they're relying primarily on scraping (which I have to think they are, given the scale of the operation otherwise), they're really measuring "what proportion of sites make use of languages which we can easily fingerprint in their stacks". What I think this is telling us is that WordPress is popular, that WordPress is written in PHP, and that PHP is profligate in its use of headers that announce its usage. That doesn't seem very interesting.
• lasereyes136 5y ago
  The implication is that WordPress sites don't represent what people are using to build software these days. This may or may not be a valid point of view depending on what you really want to know.
  • BiteCode_dev 5y ago
    Not the implication is that wordpress is mostly a no code platform, so it would be interesting to have numbers for languages when people need to produce custom code.