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There are just as many, if not more job listings for ASP.Net than *nix related web development environments.

• _pius 14y ago
  That's definitely not true for jobs doing consumer-oriented web development, as Marco was talking about. Even if it were true, though, it doesn't contradict my point. Most of the web does not run on ASP.Net ... that's a fact.
• BobPalmer 14y ago
  I see pretty comparable numbers of listings for Python, Ruby/RoR, Java, and .Net (although if you add up all of the nix web dev jobs and bundle Python, PHP, and Ruby together vs. .Net, you're going to see a lot more of the former). For web dev in general the split is pretty even, but if I am looking more at startups or small shops, the balance shifts towards Python/RoR (with Javascript being pretty ubiquitous whether you are on .Net, Java, RoR, or Python). Still see this more of a tooling cost issue though, which makes sense. MS licensing is not cheap, although I've worked with a suprising number of startups that are on the MS stack, or using a combination of languages.
• adgar 14y ago
  Do you think all those ASP.Net sites are more likely to be delivered on the web to a diverse selection of evolving, modern user agents, or on an internal network to only IE7 users until 2019? One opportunity has a choice in development tools. The other doesn't, really. The former market for developer mindshare can and does change; the latter is Microsoft's entrenched base which is never really in jeopardy (nor very relevant to the growth of the tech field at large).