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, 28 Aug 2008 19:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: peter http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-growth-comes-to-an-end/#comment-10175 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-10164 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-10152 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-10150 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 &#60;- 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?

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