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:

ruby, java Job Trends

ruby jobs – java jobs

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

Related posts:

1. Ruby on Rails Revisted
2. Another Ruby-on-Rails Gripe: “acts_as_list”
3. The Beauty of Ruby (featuring Ruport)
4. A Highlight from the Ruby.MN Mailing List
5. Ruby on Rails: One Thumb Up, One Thumb Down