Programming languages · comparison
C vs Ruby
Ruby is used on 131,286 sites, 23 times as many as C (5,832 sites).
In Programming languages, C ranks #9 and Ruby #5 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, C grew 6.3% and Ruby grew 0.3%.
20 sites run both: 0.3% of C sites and less than 0.1% of Ruby sites.
C
C
www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14
- Sites
- 5,832
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.04%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #9
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +6.3%
Ru
Ruby
ruby-lang.org
- Sites
- 131,286
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.85%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #5
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.27%
Sites using both
20
sites run C and Ruby
of C sites0.3%
of Ruby sites<0.1%
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