SitePoint Reports 5.31% of Web Developers Using Ruby
Josh Catone looks at the results of SitePoint's State of Web Development 2006 survey. Josh says:
According to respondents Ruby is used as a development platform by 5.31%, well behind PHP's dominating 67.54% market penetration. However, when asked what platforms people were not currently developing for but planning to use in the next twelve months, Ruby was the answer of 24.37% of respondents!
Of more immediate interest to me is that Python only takes 2.96% of the vote and Perl has 9.79% of the vote. And in response to "What server platform(s) are you not developing for, but expect to in the next 12 months?" Ruby takes 24.37% of the vote in comparison to just 8.47% for Python. Things aren't looking good for Python amongst SitePoint's developers!
September 6, 2006 at 12:04 am
Great find Peter!
September 6, 2006 at 12:40 am
Ahemm, I'm afraid you got the stat on maintaining a blog backwards. only 26.03% do maintain a blog. Which is still a huge number.
And most interesting from that study, I thought, was that the 24.37% number is people not using ruby today, but planning to use it within the next 12 months, so that is in addition to the 5% of today. Plus that's the #2 growth rate, just barely below any MS product, and above any .NET. Groovy.
Thank you for sharing the link!
September 6, 2006 at 1:29 am
Doh, right you are Pascal! Now corrected :)
September 7, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Take that, Joel Sposky! BAM!