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Grails vs. Rails: A fun comparison

I currently think about the question: “Is Java dead?” with some introspection into what dead means, what Java means, jobs, market and everything else. Playing with Google trends and Indeed, a fun comparison:


rails, grails Job Trends graph

rails, grails Job Trends rails jobsgrails jobs

Inspired by Obie.

Another one I found interesting (Ruby growing in sync with Rails):


rails, ruby Job Trends graph

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If you feel inclined to comment on the information content of Google trends or relative Indeed comparisons, don’t. There has been enough discussion already and the grain of salt everyone takes is big enough. Thanks.

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About the author: Stephan Schmidt has more than 15 years of internet technology experience and 10 years experience in agile. He was head of development, consultant and CTO and is a speaker, author and blog writer. He specializes in organizing and optimizing software development helping companies by increasing productivity with lean software development and agile methodologies. Want to know more? All views are only his own.
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But you forgot the Absolute version! ;-)

… well I don’t say that. It’s ridiculous.

We’re developers after all. We want to get things done.

But what I’m doing is cooler than what you do. That’s what I care about ;-)

;-)

Cheers
Stefan

stephan

@Matt: Oh, I’m truly honored by a comment from you. Yes, the absolutes are different ;-)

stephan

@Stefan: Thought so :-)

Indeed.com is interesting. Unfortunately I don’t see the trends from Indeed.com represented here in Switzerland :-(

http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2008/05/where-are-ruby-jobs.html

Searching for ruby jobs here in Switzerland is not really fruitful. I expect searching for Grails jobs is about the same …

stephan

@Jonas: We’ll it looks different in Germany, Severals Rails startups approached me for a CTO position. There seem to be quite some Rails jobs in Germany.

But some of them seem to have Rails troubles … not sure how long new startups will choose Rails by default.

I don’t understand how the data answers the question “Is Java dead?”

stephan

@Jason: I don’t know how the data should? Should it?

jl

Rails is a steaming pile of cow dung.

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