Comments on: Ruby’s Growth Comes to an End?! http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/ Experiences with Ruby and Rails, Web2.0 and other development technologies Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:58:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » “I guess Ruby is over: it Was Fun While it Lasted.” http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/comment-page-1/#comment-116673 Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » “I guess Ruby is over: it Was Fun While it Lasted.” Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:39:41 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/#comment-116673 <p>[...] what, I am guilty of naive empiricism too: I wrote an article stating the opposite of Tim’s tweet, based on similar, but opposite O’Reilly data (i.e. [...]</p> [...] what, I am guilty of naive empiricism too: I wrote an article stating the opposite of Tim’s tweet, based on similar, but opposite O’Reilly data (i.e. [...]

]]> By: peter http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/comment-page-1/#comment-10175 peter Fri, 18 May 2007 05:23:28 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/#comment-10175 <p>@John: Yeah, I understand the difference between a monotonic and a monotonically growing function, but on TIOBE's site Ruby received the most arrows up - so IMHO the table did not reflect that the growth has ended (maybe it ended compared to last month's results, but I did not find any reference on that in the article...)</p> <p>@Ivan: I did not claim that Ruby is prominent (in fact, if you check the TIOBE graph, it shows that every language I'd care about is <em>above</em> Ruby currently) - I have just said that it's hot right now (you can call it 'hype' if you like). Given the market share, this currently means that you won't find 662393 Ruby/Rails jobs just by opening a newspaper or your local craiglist - it means that if you really want, and you are good enough, you'll be able to find a Ruby (well, most likely Rails) job today.</p> @John: Yeah, I understand the difference between a monotonic and a monotonically growing function, but on TIOBE’s site Ruby received the most arrows up - so IMHO the table did not reflect that the growth has ended (maybe it ended compared to last month’s results, but I did not find any reference on that in the article…)

@Ivan: I did not claim that Ruby is prominent (in fact, if you check the TIOBE graph, it shows that every language I’d care about is above Ruby currently) - I have just said that it’s hot right now (you can call it ‘hype’ if you like).
Given the market share, this currently means that you won’t find 662393 Ruby/Rails jobs just by opening a newspaper or your local craiglist - it means that if you really want, and you are good enough, you’ll be able to find a Ruby (well, most likely Rails) job today.

]]> By: Ivan http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/comment-page-1/#comment-10164 Ivan Thu, 17 May 2007 19:48:42 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/#comment-10164 <p>Talking to a "few freelancers" is hardly a strong measure of language prominence... Why does it seem like every Ruby "statistic" is completely anecdotal?</p> Talking to a “few freelancers” is hardly a strong measure of language prominence… Why does it seem like every Ruby “statistic” is completely anecdotal?

]]> By: John "Z-Bo" Zabroski http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/comment-page-1/#comment-10152 John "Z-Bo" Zabroski Thu, 17 May 2007 16:27:50 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/#comment-10152 <p>There is a difference between growth coming to an end and a "Recession". The article is merely stating that the exponential growth has reached a critical mass where it can't grow much faster any longer.</p> There is a difference between growth coming to an end and a “Recession”. The article is merely stating that the exponential growth has reached a critical mass where it can’t grow much faster any longer.

]]> By: jherber http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/comment-page-1/#comment-10150 jherber Thu, 17 May 2007 16:01:34 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/#comment-10150 <p>they are a java shop (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm <- ant + eclipse plugins for their tools) that sells java tools. isn't that a conflict of interest when "guessing" (wishful thinking) whether ruby has topped?</p> they are a java shop (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm <- ant + eclipse plugins for their tools) that sells java tools. isn’t that a conflict of interest when “guessing” (wishful thinking) whether ruby has topped?

]]>