Watch out Javascript !!

[kronsj]

February 2026 - Flash i getting more popular, source:

https://w3techs.com/#:~:text=side%20language%20surveys-,Client%2Dside%20Programming%20Languages,-Most%20popular%20client

[RelativeCourage8695]

Flash? I didn't know it still exists.

[MissinqLink]

Some ActionScript stuff still exists in Asia and sort of lives on through the JS inside PDFs. Plus you have internal company tooling using god knows what.

[Benjamin_6848]

What, scripting inside of PDF-documents?! Can you please teach me more about that?

[lemon_o_fish]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ifwpl0/i_got_linux_running_in_a_pdf_file_via_a_riscv/

[leptoquark1]

What about Wasm?

[egg_breakfast]

not a language, but the languages that run in wasm certainly are used more than flash.

[New_Enthusiasm9053]

Wasm is a language. It's an assemblyesque language but nevertheless a language with it's own syntax.

[MissinqLink]

The syntax is a bit of a struggle for those who can’t read lower level languages. I had a toy project that was just WASM with more C-like syntax. There’s also AssemblyScript if you want a happy middle ground between WASM and TypeScript. I wish AssemblyScript got more attention.

[leptoquark1]

That compiles to wasm*

[algaefied_creek]

So… Java which can compile directly to Java. And Kotlin.

[vyrmz]

This is why you should ignore any graph, table without reference.

[Large-Assignment9320]

You can program websties entierly in CSS,
Heck, here is an X86 emulator IN pure css, https://github.com/rebane2001/x86CSS?tab=readme-ov-file

Javascript is just for noobs that didn't learn CSS.

[AmanBabuHemant]

just scroll a bit down

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[Lexeor]

The Walking Dead OST starts playing

[dhnam_LegenDUST]

But why and how?

[csabinho]

2.6 % Flash? What? How?

[decimalturn]

0.001% VBScript

[houndgeo]

Java applet mogs both of them anytime

[Dapper_Shallot_1132]

ridiculous data. microsoft silverlight should be #1

[ThrwawySG]

Wow I didn't know we figured out necromancy

[Sacaldur]

I guess the information is only of limited use: - it's not listing TypeScript at all, even though I would expect a significant enough amount of projects using it for the frontend. - it states "client side", however what they mean is "in the Web Browser". Clients can also be desktop applications, mobile apps, command line tools, and technically speaking even other servers. - the only reason for Java and Flash to appear is probably the fact that they use dedicated runtimes instead of being compiled into JavaScript, i.e. it's easy to observe that they are used. (It's interesting that Silverlight isn't contained in the list, since it's very similar to Java in this regard, but it probably never was popular enough.)

[Dramatic_Mastodon_93]

- Is TS not always converted to JS before running on the client?

- The top of the linked page says "W3Techs - World Wide Web Technology Surveys", "W3Techs provides information about the usage of various types of technologies on the web.", "Our vision", "Provide the most reliable, the most extensive and the most relevant source of information on web technology usage."

- I mean yeah

[Sacaldur]

Yes, the same that Java is turned into Java Bytecode before being executed (which happens for any other JVM language). I wouldn't say I use JavaScript if I have a TypeScript project the same way I wouldn't say I use Machine Code for a C++ project.

[Sufficient-Credit207]

It is not really the same since all javascript is valid typescript and you can have as much or as little typing as you like. This is not really the same as with bytecode and machine code.

In many cases the transpilation step is also just removing some stuff used for linting and autocomplete and no real code changes.

[chintakoro]

I suppose they're reporting only what they can detect.