⚡ Programming Languages in the British Virgin Islands

Programming languages are sets of instructions, syntax, and rules used by developers to create software such as applications and websites.

The British Virgin Islands is a Caribbean British Overseas Territory with a population of around 31 thousand people.

According to our research, programming languages are detected on 42.9% of websites from the British Virgin Islands.

Statistics based on 3K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top programming languages on websites in the British Virgin Islands in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Lua with an impressive share of 35.6%, followed by Erlang with 32% and JavaScript with 24.1%.

Lua 35.6%
Erlang 32%
JavaScript 24.1%
PHP 19.7%
CFML 4.1%
C# 0.5%
Java 0.2%
Ruby 0.2%
TypeScript 0.08%
Scala 0.08%
ASP 0.08%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top languages that are more popular in the British Virgin Islands than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Lua ^(-2)
2. Erlang ^(-12)
5. CFML ^(-6)

✨ Best Programming Languages

Below is a more detailed list of 11 programming languages used on sites from the British Virgin Islands, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Lua Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A lightweight scripting language designed primarily for embedded use in applications.	35.6%
2	Erlang Stockholm, Sweden A high-level functional programming language designed for building concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.	32%
3	JavaScript Geneva, Switzerland 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.	24.1%
4	PHP A widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.	19.7%
5	CFML San Jose, California, United States A scripting language for web development, usually associated with Adobe ColdFusion.	4.1%
6	C# Redmond, Washington, United States A high-level, statically typed, object-oriented programming language developed for the .NET platform.	0.5%
7	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, designed to run across different systems through the Java Virtual Machine.	0.2%
8	Ruby Matsue, Japan An interpreted, object-oriented, open-source programming language designed for simplicity and productivity, commonly used for web development.	0.2%
9	TypeScript Redmond, Washington, United States A high-level programming language developed by Microsoft that adds optional static typing and advanced language features to JavaScript for building complex applications.	0.08%
10	Scala Lausanne, Switzerland An object-oriented programming language designed to improve and address the limitations of Java.	0.08%
11	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.08%

🗃️ 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 3,095 websites from the British Virgin Islands.
We currently track the presence of 23 programming languages across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from the British Virgin Islands.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.