Comment by ang_cire

11 hours ago

> PHP powers approximately 70% of websites,

Well, that's my depressing statistic for the day...

Why is that depressing? PHP is just as capable as everything else out there. It may not be our first choice but its use is not depressing.

One billion devices run Java!

  • Actually even more nowadays, given Android with 75% market share, even if it is a different brand of coffee, alongside all developers using JetBrains products even when not using Java as their programming language.

    • Depends on how you define Java. Android can execute Java programs, and bundles a handful of OpenJDK libraries, but it stopped running the JVM a long time ago.

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This is a very misleading stat. A single path or subdomain on the website needs to be running PHP for the entire site to count as “powered by PHP”. Plus it excludes sites whose server-side tech cannot be identified at all (aka properly configured ones).