🆚 Erlang vs. JavaScript
- 📈 JavaScript is much more popular than Erlang.
- 🌍 JavaScript is more popular in all countries.
Erlang
JavaScriptType
About
Erlang is a high-level functional programming language designed for building concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
It provides lightweight processes with isolated memory and asynchronous message passing, supports hot code swapping without downtime, and includes the Erlang/OTP platform with supervision trees, reusable behaviors, and a standard library for scalable applications.
JavaScript is an interpreted programming language and a core technology of the web, alongside 
HTML and 
CSS, used to add interactivity and logic to websites and web applications.
It runs in all major browsers, supports event-driven and asynchronous programming, includes a standardized specification called ECMAScript, and is widely used for client-side scripting, server-side development, and cross-platform applications.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Programming Languages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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