Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam?

itwbennett writes: In a post last week, Quartz ranked the most valuable programming skills, based on job listing data from Burning Glass and the Brookings Institution. Ruby on Rails came out on top, with an average salary of $109,460. And that may have been true in the first quarter of 2013 when the data was collected, but "before you run out and buy Ruby on Rails for Dummies, you might want to consider some other data which indicate that Rails (and Ruby) usage is not trending upwards," writes Phil Johnson. He looked at recent trends in the usage of Ruby (as a proxy for Rails usage) across MS Gooroo, the TIOBE index, the PYPL index, Redmonk's language rankings, and GitHut and found that "demand by U.S. employers for engineers with Rails skills has been on the decline, at least for the last year."

Comments

Re:How about over 10 years?

[Lunix Nutcase]

That's never fazed an HR department.

Re:Yo, its 2014!

[Half-pint HAL]

Ruby On Rails originated in 2003. The crash of the global economy followed.

So...RoR crashed the economy then?

I told you guys that dynamic typing was unstable....

Re: How about over 10 years?

[nblender]

oh crap.

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