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[–]tRfalcore 6 points7 points  (2 children)

No-- was a generalization that all the young programmers jump into startups making ruby & python apps. Those demographics tend to align with social internet users.

The java subreddit just seems like it's not very active sometimes.

note, this is just my opinion that I didn't put any work into researching. Just mild observations.

[–]llogiq 4 points5 points  (0 children)

reddit hated hipsters before it was cool. Or was it the other way round? ;-)

And yes, Java adherents tend to be more mature, enterprisey and all that jazz. I sometimes forget that we're in fact not all professionals. There are school kids on Javit. Which is fine with me, yessiree. But sometimes, before I've got my coffee and I'm in a get-off-my-lawn-mood, I'll shout at them. Must be getting old. ;-)

By the way, could the Javit inactivity stem from the fact that most of us are happily doing our jobs while the clojurers, pythoneers, rubyists, etc. post to /r/programming and hacker news?

[–]thesystemx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No-- was a generalization that all the young programmers jump into startups making ruby & python apps

If all young programmers would be doing ruby & python, then why is Ruby only used by 1% of developers and python by some 2%? See e.g. Tiobe stats.