It seems like time of mainstream native mobile apps development is over. I used to get a multiple job/contract offers every week to write another iOS app, but they stop coming during last year. Nowadays I might get one offer every other month or so.
Does anybody else feels it same or is it just my own case?
No idea. Contracts I am seeing nowadays all seems to be all about web apps and mobile apps are afterthougts. From about 2012 - 2016 it was all about mobile first strategy.
I wish you could also see raw values of those posts, some things I could not draw a conclusion from it.
Example: Rails took a huge percentage hit (-12%), still node.js only got up (+3%), so is web jobs disappearing? or new jobs being created and the market expanding (Machine learning & AI)?
Node is going up, React is going up, but Javascript in going down... what gives?
Author here, the Rails drop was a strange one, since it just had a strong June, from 85 postings in June to 59 in July with similar total posting counts in both months. From what I've seen over the years, month to month changes can be hard to explain, so will see if it becomes a trend.
The raw data used for the chart is available in the GitHub repo or in the JS file.
Javascript going down could just be a case that the job posters are assuming for all the JS libraries (node.js/React) that you know JS and not posting it in their Ad.
I don't think that the rails hit, is the result of fewer web jobs. I think it's more a case of the web is transitioning into more JS led architecture.
I noticed the same trend on StackOverflow careers, it's down about the same percentage comparing to a year ago. Rails is not as exciting anymore. Ruby meetups in my city(Montreal) have less attendants than the new Elixir meetup.
Author here. Good point, I saw it pop up on the "rising" tab and made a quick assumption. Vue had 7 postings, ranking it 84th in July vs 0 postings last July. Compared with React's 146 postings, it does indeed have a long way to go, but it could still knock React from the #1 spot this year I think.
I quickly verified with some Chrome CTRL+F action on the "Who Is Hiring" HN thread described in this post that this is mostly accurate information per the data set. Many hat tips to you good sir, thank you.
I'd say it's because HN is a bit of a "hipster" crowd and there are more startups, with fresh stacks that want to use new exciting technologies, than corporations with a "solid" base.
I wouldn't regard PHP as solid or corporate. Rather it's usually a sign of a business which started out as a website made by less-technical people. (Which can be the best kind to join as a technical person, as it means your skills are likely to be complementary to what they already have).
It demonstrates that their product is old and web-based, yes, but not that it was put together by less-technical people. In the mid-2000s, PHP held like 80+% of the server-side programming language market, ASP was in the mid 10s, leaving every other language to fight for the remaining 5% or so.
The React license makes it hard on exactly one group: companies who are interested in filing or buying patents so they can wield those patents proactively—i.e., go after someone for infringement. For anyone else, the terms are effectively a NOP; there's no ill effect.
Given that the popular opinion in the circles that matter seems to be anti-patent, the really surprising thing is to see this blip where popular opinion inverts itself and throws in on the pro-patent side. More than anything else, the negative reaction to React licensing seems to have more to do with anti-Facebook sentiment being stronger than folks' feelings towards patents, rather than any real reversal towards seeing patents positively.
I think the numbers are skewed somewhat because of the kinds of teams where Go is used. This is just my observation but more Go usage seems to happening on infrastructure/operations/DevOps teams, where it is used for system automation, metrics, networking montioring, etc. These teams are typically have a fraction of the staffing of companies' greater software developer organizations and thus, the jobs are not as numerous.
Does anybody else feels it same or is it just my own case?