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How Many Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby Developers Are There ?

Davey Shafik posted recently a very interesting article making the case for PHP. It's not about comparing programming languages capabilities, but especially concerning access to people and market penetration. Davey pointed to an old post that gives an estimation of Perl, Php, Python and Ruby Programmers availability according to most popular search engines. I updated the estimation so we can have most accurate results. The table below illustrates the results found, I have just truncated Bing results to 1M to have more readable chart, after all I don't believe there are 50M resumes indexed by Microsoft - and that's another topic.

PHP Perl Ruby Python
Google 788000 57000 14100 26300
Yahoo 541000 377000 41500 82400
Bing (MSN) 5970000010200184004900
resumes in search engines
Programmer's Resumes in Search Engines

Posted by Hatem on June 22, 2009 7:23 AM to Case Study | | View blog reactions

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A good programmer have the knowledge and the ability of learn any other language easily. A good programmer focus his resume not in a language.

The question is know how many of those people can clean his own ass without help.

Site icon Posted by Mahomedalid Pacheco | June 23, 2009 12:58 AM | Reply

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These are just estimates of people having their resumes online. I don't have myself my resume online.

Site icon Posted by Hatem | June 23, 2009 8:16 AM | Reply

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I'm curious how these numbers compare to .NET developers. We've traditionally built in .NET and ASP, but are considering PHP because it appears there are more PHP developers out there than .NET...but we don't have any hard data to go on. Any thoughts on the .NET vs PHP population?

Site icon Posted by John Munsell | August 26, 2009 3:15 PM | Reply

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I wanted to use this data in my research, but than I looked at the actual search results. Unfortunately, php is also used as the file extension resulting in all resumes from a PHP driven site are reflected as PHP developers.

Using intext:php should in theory restrict the search to real php developers.

Posted by Marcel Berteler | November 27, 2009 2:36 PM | Reply

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