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Job Market for Developers Evaluated

Posted by Zonk on from the java-barista-coffee dept.

David Parmet writes "Using data from indeed.com (an aggregator for job sites), Brandon of devnulled did an evaluation of the state of the job market in the US for developers. Some interesting findings - there are more Linux jobs than Solaris jobs. Unix is still competitive with Windows (only 24,000 fewer job listings for Unix than for Windows), Java is beating .Net and overall there seem to be a lot of enterprise / corporate IT jobs available. Indeed has a web services API / XML interface available here, so if you want you can do the analysis yourself."

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  1. replacement for c++ (Dylan) by qwasty · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dylan seems like a possible alternative to C++. Here's some more Dylan resources for those who want to look into the language a little further.

  2. google's cache by qwasty · · Score: 4, Informative

    here's google's cache of the site http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:0P-b3Qx1lg8J: devnulled.com/content/2005/01/an-evaluation-of-the -current-technology-job-market-updated/+&hl=en&lr= lang_en

  3. Re:Java scripting by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 2, Informative

    I posted a reply to another comment above this one; the idea is the same. There's a particularly common family of syntax that varies slightly from language to language - C, C++, PHP, Java... you can often follow the meaning of the code if you understand that syntax.

    It doesn't say anything about the individual's style where consistency, organization, and cleanliness goes. But it does indicate the learning curve as folks move from one language to the next.

    I learned PHP very quickly. I had used C++ and Java before, so the style and syntax came naturally. The little bit of C I've come into contact with was pretty easy to follow (I was reading it, not developing in it).

  4. Re:Language popularity. Java use going down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    "You should note that the position and Ratings changes is based on the position from last year at this time." (TIOBE Programming Community Index)

    Java, Jan 2005 => 17.478%

    Java, Mar 2005 => 18.871%

  5. Re:doesn't have much of a chance by qwasty · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe if the Dylan community created a killer IDE with a really high-quality implementation, it might still take off...

    Have you seen Functional Developer? It's a commercial windows IDE from Functional Objects, and it's recently been open sourced. From zesiger.com's blurb on FunDev:

    Also known as FunDev, this is a popular, commercial Windows IDE for Dylan that has just recently been made free to the public. There is talk that it could be open-sourced soon (18 June 2004). It is still being actively developed by the same people who are working on the Gwydion Dylan compiler.

    Looks like the blurb is a bit outdated since it's already been open sourced...but anyways, did you know about FunDev when you made a call for a "really high-quality" IDE from the Dylan community?

    Of course, besides FunDev, there's Gwydion Dylan, a nice commandline compiler for unix/linux.

  6. .NET and ASP.NET by jbplou · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article mentions 47,000 .NET programming and only 5500 ASP.NET jobs. Almost every job I've ever interviewed for that uses .NET is using it mainly for ASP.NET.