On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:42:14PM +0000, James Laver typed: > >> At risk of being somewhat london-centric, how many jobs have you seen >> advertised for python down here recently? >> >> In the past year or so I've seen about 5 python jobs advertised (at least >> that I've noticed). Alongside this there have been a large number of perl >> jobs, a handful of ruby jobs and a surprisingly large amount of PHP jobs. > > Python seems more popular in the USA than UK from speaking with people at > conferences. There have been a small number of test framework-type python > roles here but not many. > > I suspect Django may increase the number of python roles but Rails > has been popular (as has Catalyst). I like Python and I wish it > were more widely used.
It's a singular datapoint, but to answer the "how many python jobs..", I would ask "how many engineers has Google hired in London in the last few years? It's *one* job application with lots of hires, many of whom will have to use python at some point. Other companies have probably done the same. But I don't believe the same is true with Perl. Perl is fairly well entrenched. It's available everywhere. But Python is still growing and has a lot of headroom. Most people have tried Perl. The number trying Python and Ruby instead is growing. Fast. I like Python too and wish the same. I like that is enforces structure. I'd donate a kidney if perl could be made to do that.