2009/2/8 tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx>: > At 2:35 PM +0000 2/8/09, Richard Heyes wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Can anyone point out some general statistics on PHP usage compared to >> other server languages? I've tried Netcraft, but they only appear (or >> I've only found) to have statistics on the httpd server used. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Richard Heyes > > Richard: > > I went looking for that same information a few weeks ago myself. > > I wasn't able to find a lot of information, but here's a useful link: > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > > I wrote them and asked for "where's ASP" in that listing. You see, I wanted > to compare the number of ASP users to the number of PHP users -- I was > thinking that ASP is the closest language to be PHP's competition (I may be > wrong). They wrote back: > > "Thanks for your feedback on our TIOBE index. ASP is not a programming > language as such, that's why it is not part of the index. Please read the > FAQ at the end of the page (or search for ASP on the page) for more details. > If you want to compare PHP to ASP, here are my 2 cents. You could combine > Visual Basic and C# to get a guestimate. Then ASP is 14.8% versus PHP 8.9%." > > The only thing that brothers me about the 8.9 percent is how can that be if > there are millions of web sites that use php and that number is growing? > Additionally, this month they report a lower percentage for php than they > did last month -- it appears that something is wrong. Tedd, that's a list of programming languages, not web development languages. I have no doubt that C# + VB accounts for more development in the world than PHP. Both are used extensively in non-web development whereas PHP is not. > If you find any information of the numbers of php users out there, please > let me know. When you consider how such a thing would be measured it won't take long to realise why the number is not available. You have to bear in mind non-public use which will not be insignificant, servers where PHP is not advertised and a multitude of other reasons why any number you could come up with *will* be wrong, and therefore pretty useless. Why anyone would see value in such a number is beyond me. IMHO the community that exists around it and the number of jobs out there requiring PHP should be enough to convince anyone that it's not an insignificant player. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
