11.09.07
Ruby is more of a weekend language
Over the year I’ve had a growing interest in the Ruby programming language. I’ve been attending the local Ruby Meetups, reading The Ruby Way and creating Rails based sites. I’m still swimming in the shallow end but it’s all clicking.
But at the end of the day Ruby is my weekend language. It’s how I unwind, not how I pay the bills.
Apparently I’m not the only one. Google Trends shows that the search term “Ruby” remains steady, and even ticks upwards, over the weekend. Comparable terms, “Perl” and “Python”, exhibit a sharp decline on our days of rest.
Is a picture really worth 1000 words?
I won’t draw any hard conslusions from this - there are too many ways to interpret the graph.
Does this mean that there are more professional Perl and Python developers so when they cut out for the weekend the traffic declines? Perhaps they are all just closest Rubyists who go home and spend their free time writing Rails apps. Perhaps Ruby developers work seven days a week.
Or maybe I’m not the only one who enjoys the Ruby experience.
