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I did a quick job search in monster.co.uk and got: ruby -160 jobs. python - 356 jobs.
by ippisl 15y ago
I did a quick job search in monster.co.uk and got:
ruby -160 jobs.
python - 356 jobs.
- ronreiter 15y agopwned
- ronreiter 15y agopwned
- draegtun 15y agoDitto and also got this for: Perl - 363 jobs. PHP - 769 jobs. C++ - 814 jobs. Java - 1,000+ jobs C# - 1,000+ jobs
- pace 15y agoI did get same for my region. But the question is: do these figures show the real-world usage or rather a resource lag of aging languages--e.g. you have more PHP jobs than Ruby because PHP devs moved to other languages and there are still tons of legacy systems to maintain. There was also an interesting article (I forgot the author, Spolsky?), who said that there's a reason why resources for aging languages are more expensive than others => The developers have more opportunity costs when developing for aging languages. Don't get me wrong: Java, C#, C++ are maybe not aging but their user base isn't growing anymore or not with the same strong growth rate like newer languages
- draegtun 15y agoAll languages are ageing languages so i think a better term to use would be mature languages. That conjures up a completely different emotion :) > Don't get me wrong: Java, C#, C++ are maybe not aging but their user base isn't growing anymore or not with the same strong growth rate like newer languages Is this anecdotal? Because its very hard to know what is going on with absolute certainty and trends vary from place to place and over time. Just thought I'd take a snapshot of Stackoverflow question metrics: Java 180,637 PHP 167,657 Javascript 151,666 C++ 97,785 Python 82,640 C# 45,493 Ruby 34,497 Perl 14,735 Scala 6,670 Clojure 2,283 Lua 1,616 It's important to not take these figs has gospel outside of Stackoverflow.com. However considering Stackoverflow only started in August 2008 then these figures do suggest that mature languages have been growing at a very healthy rate.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI'm always skeptical where people post stats from jobs websites. I think allot of the advertised jobs are either duplicates or recruiters who just advertise there in order to harvest CVs, so it may be more a barometer of what is perceived to be popular rather than what actually is.
- jiggy2011 15y agoNot sure why I was downvoted here, perhaps I'm wrong but I've had enough negative experiences with these sites in the past to be skeptical.