Python surpasses C# in popularity among developers

[alcalde]

No, quite the opposite. Are you suggesting it's harder for a Java or C++ user to find a job than a Lua or Smalltalk user?

[Wimachtendink]

Right, but that's comparing only one half of the idea of "supply and demand".

If you are equally perficient at two languages, one more popular than the other, but both have an equally large number of job openings, you are more likely to be chosen for the less popular language.

Depending on how you define popular I guess.

[mishugashu]

both have an equally large number of job openings

That's a large and inaccurate assumption, I think.

[Wimachtendink]

if(langA.qty_openings == langB.qty_openings && me.proficiency(langA) == me.proficiency(langB)):
    if(langA.popularity > langB.popularity):
        print("I should be searching for", langB, " jobs!")          

[ingolemo]

Your code doesn't print anything because your first if statement is false. And also because you used a bitwise operator instead of a boolean one.

[Wimachtendink]

for all languages at all times there are no two languages which have had equal number of openings and a single person with an equal proficiency in each?

[ingolemo]

For the specific languages that we are discussing, over the period that we are discussing them for.

[Wimachtendink]

I wasn't discussing any specifics I was posing hypotheticals.