⚡ JIT-Compiled Programming Languages

JIT-compiled programming languages are programming languages whose source code is first compiled into an intermediate representation, such as bytecode, and then translated into machine code during execution by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler.

They typically provide platform independence, automatic memory management, runtime optimization, and execution speed that often approaches languages compiled directly into machine code.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading JIT-compiled programming languages on the web in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is C# with a share of 5.6%, followed by Lua with 5.3% and Java with 2.7%.

C# 5.6%
Lua 5.3%
Java 2.7%
Scala 0.9%
CFML 0.3%
Erlang 0.03%
Elixir 0.02%
Dart 0.01%
Hack 0.001%

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of languages that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

CFML is #2 in the British Virgin Islands ^(-9)
Lua is #3 in Germany ^(-1)
Java is #4 in the United States ^(-2)
Scala is #5 in Israel ^(-2)

✨ Best JIT-Compiled Programming Languages

Below is a more detailed list of 9 JIT-compiled programming languages we track, ranked by their market share.

Available filters: Compiled Functional Interpreted JIT

Rank	Name	Market share
1	C# Redmond, Washington, United States A high-level, statically typed, object-oriented programming language developed for the .NET platform.	5.6%
2	Lua Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A lightweight scripting language designed primarily for embedded use in applications.	5.3%
3	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.	2.7%
4	Scala Lausanne, Switzerland An object-oriented programming language designed to improve and address the limitations of Java.	0.9%
5	CFML San Jose, California, United States A scripting language for web development, usually associated with Adobe ColdFusion.	0.3%
6	Erlang Stockholm, Sweden A high-level functional programming language designed for building concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.	0.03%
7	Elixir A dynamic, functional programming language that compiles to bytecode for the Erlang virtual machine and is designed for building scalable, fault-tolerant applications.	0.02%
8	Dart Mountain View, California, United States An object-oriented, class-based, garbage-collected programming language developed by Google for building cross-platform applications from a single codebase.	0.01%
9	Hack Menlo Park, California, United States A PHP-based programming language designed for the virtual machine and developed by Meta to build large-scale web applications with improved type safety.	0.001%

🗃️ 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.
We currently track the presence of 23 programming languages across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.