Server-Side Language Usage: ASP.NET Trails PHP (by a Lot!)
In what might be seen as good news for Microsoft, its ASP.NET web development framework comes in at No. 2 in usage among server-side programming languages for web projects (even though it’s not a programming language) in one ranking.
In what might be seen as bad news for Microsoft, ASP.NET is far, far behind the No. 1 language, PHP.
Web-tech survey specialist W3Techs tracks such things on its site on pages such as “Historical yearly trends in the usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites.” It includes rankings from January 2010 to the present. That 13-year plot shows PHP has always ranked first and…
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