🆚 Perl vs. Scala
- 📈 Scala is much more popular than Perl.
- 🌎 Scala is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Perl is more popular in Poland, Russia, and China.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ScalaType
Programming language
Programming language
About
Perl is a high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language.
Scala is an object-oriented programming language designed to improve and address the limitations of 
Java.
Headquarters
Lausanne, Switzerland
Categories
Programming Languages › Rank #13
Programming Languages › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Scala programming language is 7 times more popular than Perl.
Total websites
Market share
Programming Languages
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Scala is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Perl is more popular in Poland, Russia, and China.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
Canada
Brazil
France
Australia
Poland
India
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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Israel in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Brazil in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Scala is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Perl is more commonly used on public information sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Erlang🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.