Web Development Languages

David Cloutman pointed to Craiglist’s job ads as an indicator of programming language popularity. Here’s the hit counts for “web design jobs” and “internet engineering jobs” in the Bay Area:

<td>
  PHP
</td>

<td>
  Java
</td>

<td>
  Ruby
</td>

<td>
  Python
</td>

<td>
  PERL
</td>
<td>
  167
</td>

<td>
  246
</td>

<td>
  85
</td>

<td>
  98
</td>

<td>
  109
</td>
<td>
  110
</td>

<td>
  71
</td>

<td>
  22
</td>

<td>
  19
</td>

<td>
  31
</td>

<td>
</td>
 
internet engineering jobs
web design jobs

Cloutman has a few ideas for what the numbers mean, but I’m just entertained by the data. (Note: he corrected his original numbers.)