According to @warenlg (@srcd_), they are moving to Java, Python, Go, and PHP https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/ …
I'll (eventually) check if Stack Overflow agrees with that...
I am skeptical of the idea that a lot of Rails devs (or even Rails shops) have abandoned Rails for PHP. If the overall pie is growing, relative numbers don't indicate moves from X to Y
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If I told you that between 2000 and 2010: - California went from 12% to 17% of the US - NY went from 7% to 6% of the US That does not mean people are moving from NY to CA, or that NY is on the wane. NY gained 400k people during that timeframe, and still has >19M ppl.
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In general, looking at "drops in % popularity" in an industry that is undergoing significant growth is highly misleading.
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Totally! But I'd still want to know - what cities are growing faster - and why?
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The question for developers here is: Am I learning a mainstream language? Or if not mainstream... should I learn one that's going to be mainstream or one that was? (Ruby used to be my favorite language, until I had to switch to Python - but that's another story)
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