Technology and programming trends
As technologist, I'm always keeping my eyes on the market. There's nothing worse from a marketability perspective than being the best chariot wheel repairman when the entire world has moved on to automobiles. If you're going to be in a niche, you better be in one that is HIGHLY lucrative. To this end, I took a look on indeed.com and tried to see how various programming languages stacked up as far as job postings. java, ruby, groovy, c#, php, c, erlang, vb, delphi Job Trends Java jobs - Ruby jobs - Groovy jobs - C# jobs - PHP jobs - C jobs - Erlang jobs - VB jobs - Delphi jobs Obviously this is not comprehensive, but it shows what I "kinda" already knew. C is king, with java taking a large secondary position and C# following up behind java. One thing to note is that that largest percentage shown on that chart is 4%. This roughly means that the market is SO fragmented that a large leader only captures 4%. For the COBOL folks clinging on fo...