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I'm skeptical about the methodology here. The Stack Overflow Developer Survey [0] is my go-to source for this kind of thing, and it has very different results.

I'm skeptical about the methodology here. The Stack Overflow Developer Survey [0] is my go-to source for this kind of thing, and it has very different results. Of course, it's measuring overall popularity while W3Techs is looking at "server side programming languages for websites." Here's how the ranks compare: Language W3Techs Stack Overflow PHP 1 11 ASP.NET 2 8 (C#) Ruby 3 17 Java 4 5 Scala 5 26 JavaScript 6 1 static files 7 2 (HTML/CSS) Python 8 3 Cold Fusion 9 N/A Perl 10 27 Erlang 11 35 Miva Script 12 N/A [0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021?_ga=2.236209345.190202062.1628102352-126161871.1625855113#section-most-popular-technologies-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021?_ga=2.2362093...

tored 5y ago
There is nothing really wrong with the methodology, it just that you have to understand what they are measuring and what the definition of a website is. https://w3techs.com/faq https://w3techs.com/faq https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/disclaimer https://w3techs.com/disclaimer They are not measuring cron jobs, mobile apps, services, games, etc, all large sectors within the field of programming. If we combine this survey with the Stack Overflow survey we can conclude that websites are built with PHP in the backend and with JavaScript in the frontend, nothing really chocking. One problem with the Stack Overflow survey is that I'm not sure that the community of more esoteric languages like Erlang even uses Stack Overflow, I guess that is why it is at place 11 for W3Techs and 35 for Stack Overflow.

tored 5y ago

There is nothing really wrong with the methodology, it just that you have to understand what they are measuring and what the definition of a website is. https://w3techs.com/faq https://w3techs.com/faq https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/disclaimer https://w3techs.com/disclaimer They are not measuring cron jobs, mobile apps, services, games, etc, all large sectors within the field of programming. If we combine this survey with the Stack Overflow survey we can conclude that websites are built with PHP in the backend and with JavaScript in the frontend, nothing really chocking. One problem with the Stack Overflow survey is that I'm not sure that the community of more esoteric languages like Erlang even uses Stack Overflow, I guess that is why it is at place 11 for W3Techs and 35 for Stack Overflow.