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by abroncs 4151 days ago
That may be true for the Bay Area, but it's different literally everywhere else. In Europe for instance Ruby is still quite rare compared to PHP and .NET.

Also, Google trends is hardly a metric. Compare indeed trends or StackOverflow tags, and you'll see PHP is much more relevant.
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bigpeopleareold 4151 days ago
... And what a shock it was to see that Ruby is not more popular where I am in Europe. However, when I was looking for work, I had other skills to work with.

There is plenty of JavaScript jobs here, outside Java and .NET. Possibly though, that's a given.

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jon_kuperman 4151 days ago
Agreed. I've been in the Bay Area for ~1 year and definitely see the Ruby / Node / Java trend but back in Michigan it seemed like every tech job I'd run across was PHP or .NET.
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