Most popular language in your area

[Xaos]

So everyone, I was curious. What is the most popular language in your area? A quick way to find this is to go indeed.com, enter your area and search for languages. It's a very crude way, but it's pretty effective IMO. Let's say within 25 miles of your current town, and give your town or a rough estimation of where you are.

25 miles around Monroe, GA, it appears the most popular language is .NET.

(If anyone knows a better way, please share )

[a_bertrand]

Here in Switzerland the market is somewhat split between .NET and Java, while the first one is growing.

[Jackolantern]

No question about it, .NET. .NET jobs outnumber everything else combined.

[hallsofvallhalla]

Agreed .Net is going to be top dog in 90% of the areas. You might have areas like Bentonville. Arkansas where the headquarters of Wal-Mart are and they use Java so it might out get out weighted there.

[Jackolantern]

Here in Houston, energy is king, and the energy industry has wholesale adopted .NET.

[kaos78414]

Dallas is pretty much the same, mostly .NET.

EDIT: According to this search thingy, indeed.com, .NET is actually tied for Java in Dallas, both of which came in with ~2000 results. PHP and Ruby also tied at around 400 results each. Although that probably doesn't include the whole metroplex.

[Verahta]

Seattle.

I have no idea, many of the job listings overlapped for languages.

[Jackolantern]

Dallas is pretty much the same, mostly .NET.

EDIT: According to this search thingy, indeed.com, .NET is actually tied for Java in Dallas, both of which came in with ~2000 results. PHP and Ruby also tied at around 400 results each. Although that probably doesn't include the whole metroplex.

In Houston .NET was double Java.

However, it can be hard to even get an accurate feel on these things. Many job postings are written by a company's HR department who don't understand development. So they will just throw in popular technology names so they show up in search results. I found one that listed PHP, C#, Visual Basic, Java, Ruby, AngularJS and KnockoutJS as requirements. What?!

[Verahta]

Maybe this guy was building the app?

[Jackolantern]