Robert Fischer wrote: > The book sales numbers are good -- I'll take a look at those. Job trends are > okay, and I've got a > page of those I'm following[1]. > > I'm not a fan of conference attendence -- that may speak more to the culture > of. Rubyists in > particular are a social bunch -- the Pradipta 416 wouldn't have happened if > you hit up OCaml > developers, and I may be going to RubyRX down here in Raleigh, even though I > don't really do much > with Ruby these days. Also, who do you chalk the No Fluff, Just Stuff > conference attendance up to? > Java? Groovy? Scala?
That's a good point, but I think the social aspect of Ruby is exactly why it's spread so quickly over the past couple years. It's also why a lot of Ruby discussion happens in "real life" or on IRC rather than mailing lists, skewing the lists downward. Here's another metric worth considering...user-group attendance. The Ruby Users of Minnesota got nearly 50 people to come out in 5F weather for discussions on testing, Cocoa programming, and Merb's merge into Rails. We don't always talk about Ruby, but it's still the main love for most people there. But then again UGs are almost always skewed higher when things are still new, because the people that attend them like shiny objects. So our Ruby group probably has better attendance than local Java groups, mainly because there's not a lot to be said about Java (or too much to track?). > I'm putting together a blog post. I might do regular tracking of said > metrics. > > [1] http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/job-graphs/ These results are almost certainly skewed by "groovy" being a normal and reasonably common English word. "Looking for a sheep shearer to work in a groovy and relaxed environment". I think I've even used "groovy" as an adjective in a job req before the language was well-known. There's also a problem with keyword searches in any engine, since many job postings will only list "Rails" or "Grails" and not their languages. BTW, expect to get flamed by everyone if you post numbers without also admitting they probably wrong :) - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
