Alright, I don't want to quibble, but I would question any conclusions
you can draw from the numbers based upon the sole fact that it is
based upon how developer self-identify.
I know that Wordpress and Drupal freelancers do not position
themselves as PHP programmers, but rather WordPress and Drupal
programmers. The same may very well be true for Plone, Movable Type
and any number of reputable application and CMS frameworks on the
market - where much of web development is happening these days.
Who knows maybe we are talking about two different things.
Byrne
On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Lupe Christoph wrote:
On Monday, 2009-03-23 at 10:54:59 -0700, Byrne Reese wrote:
It amazes me that this entire thread neglects to mention PHP.
OK, I'll add PHP...
Figures from the German freelancer market, Gulp (www.gulp.de):
CVs (called profiles, a total of 60823 are available) with:
Perl 5470
Ruby 234
Java 11261
PHP 6047
About two Java programmers per Perl programmer. About 23 Perl
programmers per Ruby programmer. (Germans are known to be
conservative...) Roughly the same number of PHP people as Perl people.
Projects (total 1317) mentioning
Perl 54
Ruby 4
Java 153
PHP 34
The programmer-to-project ratios are:
Perl 101
Ruby 58
Java 73
PHP 178
So, yes, Perl is a bad choice. It is the language with the most
competition. Go for Ruby! There may be only four projetcs, but you
have less competition to fear! :-) And you should avoid PHP, too.
Turns out, the numbers for PHP aren't that different from those for
Perl. I have to admit that I'm surprised. By the dearth of PHP
projects
as well as the number of PHP people.
Lupe Christoph
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