For a time, it seemed as though the bloom was off of the Ruby rose. Developers were all hot and bothered about Ruby on Rails two, even three years ago. And the Rails project, today, continues to grow and improve. But Ruby just seemed as though it was slowly giving way to a general favoritism towards all dynamic languages that offered a half-good Web framework. After all, the real joy of Ruby wasn't the language itself, but the fact that this one really well thought out, fairly easy Web framework was the only game in town for the language. It focused the love in one place, and a garden of innovation flourished.

After all, Java has tons of Web frameworks, but you certainly couldn't call Java the new hotness. And those Web frameworks are generally at odds with one another. 

So it was a surprise to me when I saw this graph on Indeed.com, a site that scrapes job sites. With it, you can also find interesting statistics around what those jobs are asking for.

And according to Indeed's numbers, Ruby is not only still the new hotness, it's also still seeing the most growth in jobs of any language out there. I would have thought, that Python would have been growing at least as much as Ruby, especially now that it's reached that all important "libraries for everything" stage of a language's growth.

But Indeed's numbers do make some sense. It makes perfect sense, after all, that Java wouldn't be growing much, but rather, would have a steady stream of jobs at about the same rate. I threw a bundle of other languages into this graph and found that nothing compares to Python and Ruby when it comes to growth.

.NET and C# are a half-step higher than Java in terms of overall growth, but they show nowhere near the growth of Ruby and Python. Still, C# has seen a doubling of jobs out there since 2005. Java also still accounts for around 3% of all jobs, so it's still your safest bet for languages to know. Ruby, on the other hand, despite meteoric growth, is still well below 1% of all jobs. But it and Python are still rapidly approaching that monumental 1% point.

Perhaps the most humorous revelation was the slight spike in LISP jobs back in January of 2008. I have to wonder if that was at all related to the bank mergers at the time.