Most Popular Web Languages / Frameworks
The other day, I was wondering to myself, “What are the most popular web frameworks right now?” Finding accurate numbers is actually pretty hard, so I decided to go to the expert: Google.
Sometimes you can (very unscientifically) determine something’s popularity by simply noting how many references Google has to a particular keyword or phrase, so here are the current results:
Web programming languages:
- ASP.NET: 86 million
- Ruby: 101 million
- PHP: 2.95 billion
Specific web frameworks:
- Symfony: 4.6 million
- CakePHP: 4.8 million
- Ruby on Rails: 5.4 million
I was really surprised that PHP beat ASP.NET by such a wide margin. I was also happy to see that Symfony (my framework of choice) was holding its own against CakePHP and RoR.
It was really surprising to see that Ruby had more references than ASP.NET. Perhaps I’m not searching for the right string. I’d be interested to hear others’ results.
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July 26th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Ehm,
Google also scores pages and links on pages , so index.php will also score in a search for php, while a search for ruby won’t score the pages made in RoR. So the comparison is unfortunally flawed.
(jsp scores 409 million, while servlet only scores about 97 million and j2ee scores about 31 million, but in the jsp search you will find pages that have no content on jsp, but are built in jsp).
July 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am
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