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thedjpetersen on Nov 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Top programming languages from jobs advertised on ...

Interesting to see both PHP continued dominance. It was also surprising to see how far down the list Python happened to be.Even though jobs aren't always determined by developers I expected the list to be a little more similar to this one:

https://github.com/languages

lowglow on Nov 30, 2011 | [–]

github is a closed bubble of developer's personal projects, not an accurate gauge of an industry looking for developers. apples/oranges imho.

pavel_lishin on Nov 30, 2011 | [–]

How much of development is starting a new project from scratch vs. maintenance? Millions of apps are out there written in PHP, and they all need to be maintained.

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