Re:Leaving Microsoft
by modersky on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:39PM
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Just take absolute numbers: According to indeed, there are over 1000 open jobs mentioning Scala in the US, and over 750 in the UK. Taken together, the number of open Scala jobs in both countries exceeds the number of open Groovy jobs. It's still small compared to Java jobs (to be precise 1.5% in the US, close to 3% in the UK), but Java is by far the most demanded language, so this is not surprising. To say there is no pick-up in adoption of functional languages is disingenuous, IMO.
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And most of those job ads mentioning "Groovy" are for using groovy as an add-on to Java, while those mentioning "Scala" are usually for using Scala as the primary language.
Re:Leaving Microsoft
by zak_mc_kracken on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:54PM
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> To say there is no pick-up in adoption of functional languages is disingenuous, IMO.
The question is not about pick up (there is some, 0.01% to 0.03%, according to indeed.com) but whether that pick up is significant.