From: William Grosso <wgrosso@...>
Date: 2006-09-04T12:47:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

Vidar Hokstad wrote:
> 
> When we started hiring those concerns were validated: It's proved
> extremely hard to find people with Ruby experience. While it's
> certainly getting easier rapidly, not everyone can afford to take the
> risk. In our case I decided to start phasing Ruby in for small self
> contained components in our backend, and gradually take it from there
> as we get enough Ruby skills through training or hiring, which has
> proven to work well and meant that in the event that we'd run into
> unforeseen problems, the effort involved in switching back to another
> language would have been limited.
> 

This leads to an interesting question: how many ruby programmers are
there, anyway?

I ran across http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/08/28/daily1.html
today and boggled at the "2.5 million" number for PHP.

Any ideas for Ruby?


Bill