What Programming Languages do the Most Popular Websites Use?

I decided to check out which programming languages, the most popular websites in the world use. The results may surprise you!

Surely nobody uses PHP!!!!!

:)

From Wikipedia:
The most popular (i.e., the most visited) websites have in common that they are dynamic websites. Their development typically involves server-side coding, client-side coding and database technology. The programming languages applied to deliver similar dynamic web content however vary vastly between sites.

The popular programming languages:

My popular courses:

My business courses:

My social links:

Thanks!

Stef

#python #java #enterpriseprogramming

[rolerasi]

It's great how you start with the point of video immediately, while other you tube content usually have some long introduction that is boring and irritating. Keep up this way and thank you very much for this great channel!!! :)

[SophieExMachina]

love this kind of subject! this video gives insight into what technologies are actually used on succesful websites in 2019 :)

[kirillb]

Great video, thank you for breaking down these stats!

[kosmic]

excellent vid stef been waiting foir a video like that could u plz do more of this discussing popular sites web stacks

[Hobbitstomper]

PHP7 + Swoole outperforms NodeJS by over 400%. PHP lagged behind for years and years. Then Node.js came along which is amazing. So much faster and more flexible than PHP5. Then out of nowhere we see PHP7 with a massive speed boost, and as of 2018, we get Swoole4 on top of PHP7, which adds async to PHP and tops every benchmark ever, far outperforming ASP/IIS, Apache, Ngnix, Node.js etc.


Seriously, look up PHP7+Swoole. It's crazy!
PHP7 + Swoole + MongoDB, running on an Intel Xeon with NVMe, and you get performance on a single machine that can match that of a cluster server.

[markkuuss]

Funny and ironic how so many people predicted the death of Javascript back in 90's

[Nerzhina]

Hi Stefan thank U for highlighting this useful information. Best wishes.

[Ryannihilate]

Just completed the interactive web developer course by Stefan. Awesome course, learned a lot, understanding the similarities between programming languages really gives confidence that I'll be able to use any that I need to for a given task.

The MySQL course is a bit broken though, Stefan teaches MySQLi and then asks the questions in MySQL that isn't covered in the videos. You have to use the hints until it gives you the answer, but hopefully it'll be updated soon.

Overall well worth the money to quickly learn the capabilities of each area of the web stack.

[C]

Hello Stefan Mischook, I just recently found your channel and its very good. I have still alot of videos to watch on your channel.
I do have a question, if you don't mind.
What are your thoughts about, for instance, Cython ?
I would love to hear your opinion about it. Will it be confusing to learn about Cython ? Would you even advise against it?
Cython is considered to be like a bridge tool in creating Python code that is suitable for compiling in C
I understand that it is not a pure language. It's Python with a bit of C formatting. (plain " x=5 " in python and " cdef int x=5 " in cython).

[behrang]

hi stefan ... thanks for your awesome video's ... please upload a video about database management systems . i need to know which one is better for me as a beginner

[joshuastevenson]

I use Python for web dev in general (Django specifically), but I've never understood why people say to NOT use PHP. No, it might not be the most elegant language to read/write/maintain/etc, but you CANNOT deny that it certainly has its place in web dev. Bottom line is if you want a job as a backend/full stack web developer, it definitely wouldnt hurt to learn PHP (at least at this point in time).

[osamaa.h.altameemi]

U nailed it. Thx a ton. I am sick and tired of all the noobs bragging all about their new languages and how cool they are and having all these bells and whistles. while these same guys are missing on the proven pillars big-time. Time and time again C, java, and php are still the top dogs. I can see why python is there which is mainly for the recommender systems.
I wish if u cover the databases column in each website and reflect on them as well.
Thx again.

[oxglowinc.]

Hi Mr. Stefan (Captain Which programming language is very fast for server side. Can you make something on that... will love to see that.

[jeanleebermudezalbert]

I love the Wix ad on this video, spot on.

[shayandaneshvar]

hi
quick question!
making android programs with android studio and java VS. Xamarin and C#
which one is better?

[aoeu]

When you startup though you should use Ruby, Python or Node.JS, I guess PHP with wordpress can also be used (however, be careful because some PHP programmers aren't known for their maintainable code). As you scale up you need to rewrite your inner loops to use more Go, Scala, Java, C#, Rust, Erlang, Haskell, C/C++. Why doesn't anyone use Elixir, Julia, ML (Ocaml or F#) or Lisp...? Those are really sexy languages, although the library support could be better. ML is like Haskell-lite, you can easily convert a Python program into Ocaml with almost line by line correspondence (doing so in Haskell is much more tricky, I hope you like unsafePerformIO, managing your Monad stack which may include Continuations, and threading the implicit state through several functions in the call stack). My guess is that Haskell is more for concurrent applications like Erlang.

[brootalbap]

*shocked* "Someone is using Ruby! Oh my!" :D :D :D

[AdolphusOfBlood]

I don't know if you noticed but only the oldest of those sites on your list use any PHP. All that makes me think is it's legacy code from before they grew so large the adopted the use of C/C++ in tandem with super high level languages. That suggests to me you're seeing a clear stratification between most of their coders who are using the high level languages on top of the expert coders C/C++ code. If you're more concerned with what is useful to learn that fact the newer sites on this list don't use any PHP is a vary serious sign about it's adoption in the market falling off.

[michaelbagwell]

I understand front end development but which way as far as backend is the way to go. Node, Php or asp.net? And what other technologies goes along with this?

[KPOPYakuzaz]

Any software developer who has strong opinions about a screwdriver, under utilizes their toolbox.