We're talking about well-paying high quality jobs. PHP is probably the most commonly used server side language on the web and therefore a PHP developer will never go hungry. The same is true for COBOL. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html You'll see that Haskell is #46 in terms of language popularity. However, I can almost guarantee that if anybody puts in the time and effort to become an expert Haskell developer, he or she will have well-paid job opportunities around the world. That's not in spite of it being a niche language - it's because of it. -- Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: kili.io Musings: twitter.com/varud <https://twitter.com/varud> About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Evans Marindany <prosnave@gmail.com> wrote:
The languages Adam speaks of seem to be in low demand, I suppose that's the reason not many people bother to learn them.
An interesting article caught my eye at jobstractor.com — the programming language trends review <http://jobstractor.com/monthly-stats>. The company analyzed more than 60,000 job vacancies during 2012 to produce a chart of the most sought-after technologies: Language Jobs PHP 12,664 Java 12,558 Objective C 8,925 SQL 5,165 Android (Java) 4,981 Ruby 3,859 JavaScript 3,742 C# 3,549 C++ 1,908 ActionScript 1,821 Python 1,649 C 1,087 ASP.NET 818
[image: programming language vacancy statistics] Despite developer complaints, demand for PHP and Java (server/Android) remains strong. You would also expect those jobs to require some SQL knowledge although that has a strong showing in its own right.
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