Jan 27 2008
Brief Reality Check on Ruby Jobs
I’m working on a post about Ruby on Rails and its current hip-to-hate condition spawned by Zed Shaw’s flaming rejection of Rails.
I couldn’t wait to post this little tidbit, though:
So, the Ruby community is all excited because of this post, and the following graph showing the incredible growth of Ruby jobs versus Java:
Ooh! Sexy! Ruby can’t possibly be a has-been language with a red bar like that!
Try this one on for style:
| ruby, java, cobol, c++, perl, php Job Trends | ruby jobs - java jobs - cobol jobs - c++ jobs - perl jobs - php jobs |
So, in short, we’re looking at more Cobol jobs than Ruby jobs and a growth rate similar to PHP. Not quite so sexy now, is it?
The Ruby people need to be happy with being the hip rebel outsiders. It’s a much better fit.
Edit: Damn it, Luke Francl already made this snark.
Edit 2: Check this out, comparing various web frameworks:
| rails, struts, seam, spring mvc, grails, php Job Trends | rails jobs - struts jobs - seam jobs - spring mvc jobs - grails jobs - php jobs |
| rails, struts, seam, spring mvc, grails, php Job Trends | rails jobs - struts jobs - seam jobs - spring mvc jobs - grails jobs - php jobs |
Popularity: 5% [?]
I hope you haven’t offended any COBOL coders when you forgot that COBOL is an acronym (not “Cobol”) - COmmon Business-Oriented Language. It’s sad that I know this, but I’ve actually coded COBOL before. Needless to say, you wouldn’t know this fact about me by looking at my resume.
Wonder what percentage of Enfranchised Mind readers have ever coded COBOL?
I actually didn’t know that COBOL was an acronym.
I’ve never coded COBOL, for one. I’ve had to read it once, which was an adventure in paleoprogramming. Brian might have taken a swing at it once for fun.
BTW, I’m a bit sensitive to name stuff. I get really cranky when I hear recruiters looking for “Grails” call it “GEE-rails”.
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