🆚 JavaScript vs. Swift

📈 JavaScript is much more popular than Swift.
🌍 JavaScript is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Swift is particularly popular in Russia.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

JavaScript

Swift

Type

Programming language

About

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.

Swift is a high-level, compiled programming language created by Apple as a modern replacement for Objective-C for building applications across iOS and macOS.

It features automatic memory management, strong static typing with type inference, protocol-oriented programming, closures, and generics, supports interoperability with existing C and C++ codebases, includes built-in package management, and compiles to native code.

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United States

Cupertino, California, United States

Website

ecma-international.org #1,072,074

swift.org #111,896

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The JavaScript programming language is 637,878 times more popular than Swift.

Total websites

Market share

Programming Languages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

JavaScript is more popular than Swift in all countries.

United States

Germany

Japan

United Kingdom

France

Netherlands

Italy

Spain

Russia

India

Awards

🥇 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.

JavaScript is more popular than Swift in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Entertainment

Health

General News

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

Name

Rank

#520,396

#859,316

#2,447,586

Compare alternatives

Technologies with similar characteristics.

🗃️ About This Data

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 May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.