🆚 Perl vs. Ruby
- 📈 Ruby is much more popular than Perl.
- 🌎 Ruby is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Perl is more popular in Poland, Iran, and Dominica.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
RubyType
Programming language
Programming language
About
Perl is a high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language.
Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented, open-source programming language designed for simplicity and productivity, commonly used for web development.
It features a pure object model where everything is an object, dynamic typing, automatic memory management with garbage collection, and a standard library with over 100 built-in modules for tasks such as file handling, networking, and data processing.
Headquarters
Matsue, Japan
Categories
Programming Languages › Rank #13
Programming Languages › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Ruby programming language is 24 times more popular than Perl.
Total websites
Market share
Programming Languages
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Ruby is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Perl is more popular in Poland, Iran, and Dominica.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
India
Japan
Netherlands
Canada
France
Italy
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Latvia in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Guatemala in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Ruby is more popular than Perl in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Software/Hardware
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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.