Due to the rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web in the 1990s, new programming languages were introduced to support Web pages and networking. Java, based on C++ and designed for increased portability across systems and security, enjoyed large-scale success because these features are essential for many Internet applications. Another development was that of dynamically typed scripting languages—Python, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby—designed to quickly produce small programs that coordinate existing applications.

pre {
  font-size: var.$text-sm;
  background-color: #1a1a1a !important;
  margin: var.$spacing-md 0;
  padding: var.$spacing-md;
  border-radius: 3px;
  overflow-x: auto;
}

Due to their integration with HTML, they have also been used for building web pages hosted on servers.