>I said, "there are so many more jobs for another popular language", and I was clearly speaking of the broad job market... not a few big players. Most every la

>I said, "there are so many more jobs for another popular language", and I was clearly speaking of the broad job market... not a few big players. Most every large company uses AI/ML to actually drive revenue and the number of engineers they'll hire dwarfs all the small startups put together. To you question however looking at the latest recruitment thread on HN there's roughly twice as much Python as Ruby. About 30% of the Python work is Data/ML related at first glance. So 40% more companies are hiring for Python versus Ruby pure backend right now. I'm not sure how a 40% difference is such a catastrophic difference. Python is popular because most every large company uses it nowadays and not because a bunch of non-name startups are using it slightly more often than Ruby.