🆚 Perl vs. Python
- 📈 Python is three times more popular than Perl.
- 🌎 Python is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Perl is more popular in Japan, Poland, and Chile.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
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Programming language
Programming language
About
Perl is a high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language.
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is dynamically typed and widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and machine learning.
It is an interpreted language with indentation-based syntax, automatic memory management, exception handling, and support for object-oriented, procedural, and functional programming.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Python programming language is 3 times more popular than Perl.
Total websites
Market share
Programming Languages
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Python is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Perl is more popular in Japan, Poland, and Chile.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Japan
Poland
Russia
Spain
Switzerland
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Poland in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Chile in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Hong Kong in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Python is more popular than Perl in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Travel
Public Information
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Java🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.