🆚 Ruby vs. Scala

📈 Ruby is four times more popular than Scala.
🌎 Ruby is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌎 Scala is more popular in Brazil, Korea, and Cyprus.

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

Ruby

Scala

Type

Programming language

About

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

Lausanne, Switzerland

Website

ruby-lang.org #117,399

scala-lang.org #112,006

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ruby programming language is 4 times more popular than Scala.

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 Australia, while Scala is more popular in Brazil, Korea, and Cyprus.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

India

Japan

Canada

Netherlands

France

Italy

Awards

🥉 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.

⭐ 6th most popular in Brazil in the Programming Languages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Latvia in the Programming Languages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Uruguay 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.

Ruby is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Scala is more commonly used on finance and banking, health, and restaurants sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13

#49

#51

#76

#134

Name

Rank

#40

#1,184

#1,300

#1,889

#3,104