<story><title>Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites</title><url>https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AzzieElbab</author><text>It is not about efficiency , it is about legacy. You can count number of Perl scripts out there and conclude that Perl is still the most popular scripting&amp;#x2F;devops tool in the world</text></item><item><author>jegea</author><text>I think this shows how much HN is a bubble in itself.&lt;p&gt;Most discussions here happen around new&amp;#x2F;exciting&amp;#x2F;cool&amp;#x2F;weird technology. And don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I love those discussions! That&amp;#x27;s why I come here!&lt;p&gt;But reality outside of this bubble is people building and maintaining web apps as efficiently as possible and PHP hasn&amp;#x27;t stopped being very efficient. On the contrary, it&amp;#x27;s getting better with time.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, Ruby (my personal interest, here) has been steadily gaining share in that chart year over year, despite not being &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; anymore.&lt;p&gt;If you ask me, it&amp;#x27;s good to have a dose a reality from time to time!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fogihujy</author><text>In PHP&amp;#x27;s case it&amp;#x27;s about WordPress which still being deployed at a very high rate. While the blogging thing isn&amp;#x27;t that much in focus anymore, WordPress + Divi + WooCommerce is an extremely common stack for setting up eCommerce sites.&lt;p&gt;An yes, then there&amp;#x27;s Drupal, Laravel, Symfony, and many others, and they&amp;#x27;re going strong too. Heck, even Joomla is actively developed even though it&amp;#x27;s probably small enough today to be considered legacy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites</title><url>https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AzzieElbab</author><text>It is not about efficiency , it is about legacy. You can count number of Perl scripts out there and conclude that Perl is still the most popular scripting&amp;#x2F;devops tool in the world</text></item><item><author>jegea</author><text>I think this shows how much HN is a bubble in itself.&lt;p&gt;Most discussions here happen around new&amp;#x2F;exciting&amp;#x2F;cool&amp;#x2F;weird technology. And don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I love those discussions! That&amp;#x27;s why I come here!&lt;p&gt;But reality outside of this bubble is people building and maintaining web apps as efficiently as possible and PHP hasn&amp;#x27;t stopped being very efficient. On the contrary, it&amp;#x27;s getting better with time.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, Ruby (my personal interest, here) has been steadily gaining share in that chart year over year, despite not being &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; anymore.&lt;p&gt;If you ask me, it&amp;#x27;s good to have a dose a reality from time to time!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;You can count number of Perl scripts out there and conclude that Perl is still the most popular scripting&amp;#x2F;devops tool in the world&lt;p&gt;Perl is still heavily used. I wrote more than 2K lines just last week, lots of it is throwaway. But hey not many languages make it easy for you to write thousands of lines of throwaway code in hours.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s still the most useful language in the backend&amp;#x2F;unix world. This comes from me, who actually writes lots of Python code. But I wouldn&amp;#x27;t use Python where I use Perl. It would just make me slow and it wouldn&amp;#x27;t get the job done just as well as Perl.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not used as frequently for web dev, or other places where Java is used. But it&amp;#x27;s very good at what it does. Glue language for the Unix world.</text></comment>