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It would be fun to see the data in the other direction: where should I move if I know...?

Cupertino, CA said "Java"

That is very funny.

Has someone done the reverse? "All I know is PL/1, FORTRAN and Java, where should I move to?"

Or: "I'd rather not live next to any FORTH programmers. What neighborhoods should I avoid?"

Or: "Are there any hot chicks / cute guys who know Ruby who live in a nice place?"

Whereas San Francisco said "Objective-C"

Edit: I think I just got the joke. Mountain View also says "Objective-C"

For those catching up, Cupertino is the location of Apple's HQ , whereas Mountain View is Google's HQ. Elsewhere in the comments people mention iOS vs Android.

Wow, in Houston, the answer is apparently SQL.

Sometimes, I really, really hate this town.

Everything around me in a 15 mile radius wants me to learn java. Programming gods help us all.

As a Java programmer I see no problem with this.

Eh, Java is a pretty cool bro--he makes enterprise service architectures and doesn't afraid of anything.

Would rather code in Ruby though.

How about ranking by how well they pay. There might be loads of PHP jobs out there but round these parts they have been advertised as "meets minimum national wage". McD pays better

For a laugh, click the farthest right share icon.

Oh, that is brilliant.

This is saying I should learn EmptyString, which is a pretty neat language since all programs are quines.

Ah, the joys of living in the boonies...

NYC listed 1 job for C, 1 job for Ruby and 1 job for Python. Evidently people aren't tweeting jobs on Twitter in NYC?

Europe is just PHP as far as the eye can see. I think Berlin is the only major city that bucks the trend.

If you search at country level, most are Java bastions. UK and France excepted.

Stockholm = JavaScript

Gothenburg = Obj-C

Would be more useful weighted by salary. (Or maybe I'm just saying that to boost my favourite language).

I agree. My query returns PHP, but PHP developers earn significantly less than their C or Java equivalents, for instance.

> You should learn PHP

I need to relocate.

Maybe add a filter for industry?

Sacramento, CA came back with Java, that is probably due to the high number of government jobs. If you exclude government, you probably would get C# / .NET.

Apparently both Cambridge and "Canadia" are inside London, and their search is catching a fair amount of stuff that isn't a job advert from twitter.

Finally found a spot with Ruby as #1 -- Boulder, CO.

NYC, Berlin: JS

SF, PA, MV: Objective-C

Paris, London, Barcelona, Moskow: PHP

you got obj-c for PA? I got JavaScript for Philly...

Palo Alto

Any one in Sydney is gonna have a hard time: PHP, SQL and Java. Luckily Melbourne is JS.

This is fun to play with, though it looks like it generally comes down to Obj-C vs Java.

PHP is on top globally so must feature heavily somewhere. Glad you like it :)

Yeah, I'm based in the uk and everywhere I first looked at came up as PHP. Thought it was a hilarious troll at first.

"Feature heavy" would indeed be a way of describing PHP.

Yeah. Programming in PHP is like swimming with anvils tied to your ankles. Every time I write something that increases the amount of processing on a page, I feel like I'm stabbing a kitten.

:) I know exactly what you mean.

I'm sort of surprised that Java is so popular, it gets so little press these days -- but I guess it's what people are really using.

Java is the Cobol of today. If you want steady work, work for someone making steady money. That'd be the banks, and similar BigCos where technology is not what they sell.

I remember when Java was the "new kid on the block" which means I feel very old right now!

Or said another way, Android versus iOS.

To keep up in the current state of the software field, then Guajrati or Mandarin.

I would go with just English, actually.

Actually you would be surprised how few coders can actually speak "plain english". The one lesson I've learned over the years is that coders who can talk to non-coders tend to do very well in the real world over time.

London, Brighton, Liverpool, Manchester - PHP

javascript. Then lisp if you get hooked and want to go deeper, then back to javascript

I searched for Silicon Valley, just for kicks. It said I should learn Java.

What gives?

Maybe the Java jobs are open because SV developers don't want to go near them? If that's the case then I bet there's a lot of PHP work over there too.

(Austin listed Java as well... that sounds about right actually.)

San Francisco on the other hand:

Objective-C

  162 jobs requested Objective-C
  122 jobs requested Ruby
  120 jobs requested JavaScript

Android.

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