Tell me about the R# support. That's the only thing making VS usable.

Resharper probably isn't going to run on here. Resharper has definitely been a requirement in the past, but Jetbrains seems to be slow to embrace Rosylen, which is clearly the future on .NET. It's not at all clear to be how long they're going to remain in their dominant position.

Well, future is not clear yet; but right now VS is a shell to host R#.

I would add scoop. http://scoop.sh/

I saw something similar in perl years ago. I can't seem to locate it now though so maybe I'm imagining things.

It sounds more like his family took a break from him.

PHP "runs half the Internet quite well"? Source?

Common sense. Calculate how much traffic Wikipedia + Facebook + Wordpress + All The Rest generate. Calculate in the fact that most services talk to other services and more importantly, talk to Facebook.

Click on a link?

I promise, at some point, PHP is involved.

Not to mention that the web is not the internet.

Pretty sure almost everybody on HN understands the technical separation between the two.

Sometimes people speak in broad generalities, or use "Internet" when they mean "Web." It is in fact extraordinarily common.

> Sometimes people ... use "Internet" when they mean "Web." It is in fact extraordinarily common.

It's also wrong.

Apparently it's closer to 78%

http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all

No matter how you try to hide from it, it's blatantly clear that PHP runs at least half the entire Web.

What else exactly did you think was? Surely you didn't think Python was running half the web. Obviously Ruby isn't. So what does that leave? Coldfusion? C?

> What else exactly did you think was?

Well, in principle, there's no reason any one language has to run half the web by itself. And there are also static pages.

You don't agree with the notion that many tech products like web languages (or browsers, operating systems / mobile platforms, or whatever) tend to trend heavily toward a single dominant product (either due to one simply being better, and or a benefit derived from scale of use such as plugins or knowledge availability etc etc)?

Sure, they tend to, but in principle they don't have to. I would want to assume that the GP assumes that one language runs over half the web.

Of course, once actual evidence is involved, this is just an adventure in nitpicking.

Step 1: Get respected member of MS community. Step 2: Use said community connection to move people from codeplex to github. Step 3: Profit.

Doesn't sound like a bad outcome to me, I'll take GitHub over Codeplex any day (my own .NET code is on GH too)

I'm more than ok with it as well.

> (my own .NET code is on GH too)

Where?

Sorry not an OSS project (at least not yet). I've got one work project on GH and one "nights and weekends startup" project both in private repositories. But I like the workflow of using git for my source control versus something like TFS. Although I admit I initially picked it up just because I wanted to learn something new, I used GH instead of a local git repository because my side project has another collaborator.

EDIT: my beef with Codeplex is that I just don't find it very usable when I'm researching something. Purely as a repository for things like NuGet packages it's probably fine.

If you lump Android into the Java category it makes the top of the list. Unless Android is a new language I haven't heard of.

yeah... I figured it did represent something distinct in peoples hiring intentions so was worth splitting out. From a straight language POV you'd be right but I think it would miss some interesting subtelty in the stats. Also, from talking to people hiring android devs I know they'd rather they had adnroid development experience, not just any old java experience.

Maybe I should put a few different versions together to allow for a straight language shoot out and then also capture some of the other interesting comparrisons separately.

Object C is a language that isn't specific to iOS development, too.

I'd be curious what % of Obj-c work done these days is iOS vs straight mac development vs other.

That's a good point, but I think it's segmented by skill-set, and Android development is seen as a significant subset perhaps.

True in other Java spheres as well. Someone writing servlets will have almost nothing in common, knowledge-wise, with someone writing Android apps. And then you have EJB, which is something else entirely.

It's like Java is English, and the job ads are for working on fantasy, sci-fi, and an encyclopedia. You have to know it, but it's a tiny fraction of what you need to know.