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Don't worry about Ruby

Cedric Beust: dynamic languages are not making fast progress in developer mindshare

I wonder when that was published. The evidence from Tim O'Reilly seems to contradict such a claim. Tim says Python book sales are up 20% and Ruby are up 1552%. Quote found via James Robertson.

Dave Johnson in Java • 🕒 06:19AM Dec 08, 2005

Tags: Java

Comments:

Indeed, there is no date on the interview. It came out about two months ago, and I stand by what I said today. If anything, you can say that readership or curiosity toward dynamic language has increased, but for all intent and purposes, developer mindshare is not even close to that of Java, C++ or C#. And as I said in that interviews, the absence of IDE's is one of the reasons (listen to my podcast at javaposse.com on this topic as well if you're curious). -- Cedric

Posted by Cedric on December 08, 2005 at 06:30 PM EST #

I see what you mean. If you substitute the words "market share" in place of "mindshare" then I totally agree with you. And thanks for the note about the podcast, I'm downloading it now.

Posted by Dave Johnson on December 08, 2005 at 06:46 PM EST #

i am not bashing Ruby but, there is a catch. Before all this ruby-RoR hype, probably the sold ruby books were only a handful a year . So, any kind of immediate gain will reflect the precentages greately. Volume is the real deal i assume.

Posted by afsina on December 08, 2005 at 07:56 PM EST #

Dynamic languages? And why only Python and Ruby? And how about PHP and Perl? It seems to me that their *market* share is not so small...

Posted by Victor on December 09, 2005 at 03:42 PM EST #