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# Middleware dark matter
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/middleware-dark-matter/
- Published: 2004-07-28T18:23:12.000Z
- Updated: 2004-07-28T18:23:12.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

Steve Vinoski of Iona says … 

> As I noted nearly two years ago in this column, many distributed integration applications, including much of the software running the Web, are based on “middleware dark matter,”\[2\] which consists of dynamic languages like Python, Perl, and PHP. Not only is this phenomenon still true today but, based on the vast numbers of open-source projects revolving around these languages, it seems to still be rapidly growing. \[[IEEE Internet Computing: Dark Matter Revisited](https://dsonline.computer.org/0407/d/w4tow.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

\[2\] The earlier column he refers to here is [Middleware “dark matter”](https://dsonline.computer.org/0210/d/wp5midd.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net).