Programming languages · comparison
Perl vs Ruby
Ruby is used on 131,286 sites, 10 times as many as Perl (13,119 sites).
In Programming languages, Perl ranks #7 and Ruby #5 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Perl grew 3.6% and Ruby grew 0.3%.
43 sites run both: 0.3% of Perl sites and less than 0.1% of Ruby sites.
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Perl
perl.org
- Sites
- 13,119
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.08%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #7
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +3.6%
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
43
sites run Perl and Ruby
of Perl sites0.3%
of Ruby sites<0.1%
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.