In your opinion, there are more lines of malicious or benevolent code on the internet in general? What percentage do you think would be?

define "malicious" and "benevolent".

everything is benevolent to _someone_. even code designed to destroy everything is benevolent to the person who wanted to destroy everything.

so the answer to your question is highly dependent on subjective factors.

but given a distinction category "is it meant to help the general population", then i'd say 80% is malicious. and 100% of all commercial software, since it's designed to make money, not to make life better.

@chatgpt what percentage of the web is PHP?

@donkulator
As of 2021, around 79% of websites on the internet use PHP as their server-side programming language. This makes PHP one of the most widely used languages for web development.

@tosensei looks like you're bang on with 80%.

@donkulator i wouldn't consider php inherently malicious.

i'd rather categorize it as "chaotic neutral" on the DND scale.

Nobody knows the true proportions of anything on the internet.

I'd consider most code ever written to be neutral in nature.