Undeniably? Not quite. Your reasoning is really faulty because you aren't accounting for overall growth in the industry. If the world Irish population increa

Undeniably? Not quite. Your reasoning is really faulty because you aren't accounting for overall growth in the industry. If the world Irish population increases by 20% does this mean that the Asian population shrunk? Of course not. Consider that Tablet and Smartphone platforms are in addition to flat PC sales. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/01/tablets-crossing-point-pcs http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/01/tablets-cro... http://www.wcu.edu/ceap/houghton/edelcompeduc/ch1/handhelds/mobile-sales_business-insider.jpg http://www.wcu.edu/ceap/houghton/edelcompeduc/ch1/handhelds/... Same goes for the world wide web in general. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-web-sites-are-are-there-2012-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-web-sites-are-are-th... You can't say logically that because there are more rails sites there are less Microsoft ones. C# is pretty popular here: http://langpop.corger.nl/ http://langpop.corger.nl/ here as well: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... And that doesn't count non-C# .net ecosystem languages. Could there be an exodus? Sure, but your reasoning is just wrong here.