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Comment by samratjp | Hacker News Reader

"Right now in New York City every technology company is hiring engineers, programmers, Java developers or PHP/Perl developers,” Carvajal said. “I haven’t seen it this hot since 1997..."

Ummm, did they get the quote from 1997 too? I find these stacks to be in the minority these days for a startup anyways. Or is this a NYC trend?

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There is still a lot of PHP and Java in NY. I don't see as much Perl but there are still a few places that do a lot of hiring for Perl.

Scala seems to be the other growing area in NY right now---Foursquare obviously but a number of other companies like Obikosh (http://obikosh.com/job_pg.html) are pushing to grab Scala people.

This quote struck me as a bit outdated as well. Not because it mentions Java and PHP, but because it seems to imply that those are the big two skill sets. The "what does your startup use?" polls that show up on HN every know and then suggest Python and Ruby are in heavy use (though PHP and Java do still get a decent showing)

Believe it or not the self-selecting group represented on Hacker News is absolutely not representative of the developer majority.

Furthermore, it's very unsettling that even on hacker news there's this prevalent anti-PHP attitude. With the release of PHP 5.3, and the current maturity of the numerous frameworks there's never been a better time to use PHP.

I have no trouble believing this. I should probably have said "even on hacker news polls, Java and PHP get a substantial showing..."

That there hasn't ever been a better time to use PHP doesn't make it a good time to use PHP, cf. http://vimeo.com/17675268

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=C%2C+java%2C+python%2C+C%2...

Java, PHP and Perl are still strong.

I don't deny it as a general trend - but just curious as to why Mr. HotShot recruiter mentioned those three in the same article with startups in it. It's just interesting that quite an overwhelming amount of west coast startups tend to be ruby and/or python shops (in my recent memory, I've seen php mentioned in WePay and facebook; and Perl in Craigslist; Java seems to be mentioned in bigger tech shops or Android shops). If there is one "hot" skill today, I'd have picked JavaScript over all those three.

Javascript is the one language now that is super popular (both client and server side..)

They might not be going to startups only. Does HotJobs cater to other tech companies, too?

I'm a PHP developer, and I don't think I'd consider my current NY employer (worked here for about a month now) a startup.

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