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How did Ruby increase that much lately? Also, I'm surprised Python isn't more popular. 1% is (comparatively) tiny for a language that popular.

by qsort 5y ago

formerly_proven 5y ago
How would you tell a given page was generated by some Python or Ruby webframework? There aren't any headers these use (like PHP usually does), so you'd have to look for more subtle cues like the name of session cookies or perhaps patterns in the way static files are addressed. The same goes for pretty much everything on that list which isn't PHP or .NET.
- qsort 5y ago
  Yes, that's a good point. The "[...] of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know" clause changes the interpretation dramatically.
- daneel_w 5y ago
  It swings that way for PHP as well. Several large PHP frameworks don't report PHP in the literal sense in the response headers.
julienpalard 5y ago
I bet most Python web frameworks (just checked with Django) don't report being Python (or even the said framework) in HTTP headers, so it can't be counted. Another point of data could be: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=php%2Cpython%2Cdjango%2Cwordpress https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=php%2Cpython%...
herbst 5y ago
The ruby eco system is growing and majoring every day. It's just not cool anymore :)
qaq 5y ago
Discourse sites ?
- joelbluminator 5y ago
  Maybe, or Jekyll, Github pages etc etc...
kamaal 5y ago
Python's web dev cake was eaten by Node and React JS. The next big thing there is Typescript.
- mywittyname 5y ago
  Not sure I said Typescript is the next big thing. It's a thing now.
mywittyname 5y ago
Python deployment continues to be a pain. And it's primary domain is more in the data science/engineering side of things. Also, in my experience, web devs tend to hate python as much as they do PHP. I've worked at two places so far where python wasn't allowed to be used in web services at all without a Very Good Reason. Choices were Node or Go.

How did Ruby increase that much lately? Also, I'm surprised Python isn't more popular. 1% is (comparatively) tiny for a language that popular.

by qsort 5y ago

How did Ruby increase that much lately? Also, I'm surprised Python isn't more popular. 1% is (comparatively) tiny for a language that popular.

formerly_proven 5y ago

How would you tell a given page was generated by some Python or Ruby webframework? There aren't any headers these use (like PHP usually does), so you'd have to look for more subtle cues like the name of session cookies or perhaps patterns in the way static files are addressed. The same goes for pretty much everything on that list which isn't PHP or .NET.

qsort 5y ago
Yes, that's a good point. The "[...] of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know" clause changes the interpretation dramatically.
daneel_w 5y ago
It swings that way for PHP as well. Several large PHP frameworks don't report PHP in the literal sense in the response headers.

julienpalard 5y ago

I bet most Python web frameworks (just checked with Django) don't report being Python (or even the said framework) in HTTP headers, so it can't be counted. Another point of data could be: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=php%2Cpython%2Cdjango%2Cwordpress https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=php%2Cpython%...

herbst 5y ago

The ruby eco system is growing and majoring every day. It's just not cool anymore :)

qaq 5y ago

Discourse sites ?

joelbluminator 5y ago
Maybe, or Jekyll, Github pages etc etc...

kamaal 5y ago

Python's web dev cake was eaten by Node and React JS. The next big thing there is Typescript.

mywittyname 5y ago
Not sure I said Typescript is the next big thing. It's a thing now.

mywittyname 5y ago

Python deployment continues to be a pain. And it's primary domain is more in the data science/engineering side of things. Also, in my experience, web devs tend to hate python as much as they do PHP. I've worked at two places so far where python wasn't allowed to be used in web services at all without a Very Good Reason. Choices were Node or Go.