Is PHP staging a comeback?

[techdog]

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-php-staging-comeback.html

[mahmud]

It's not PHP that's staging a comeback, it's the tech sector that's improving. People are finally pulling out their wallets and launching projects, mostly of the web variety. To staff these projects, they're turning to the huge affordable population of PHP programmers.

[icey → mahmud]

That's a great observation. It looks like it's true across all sorts of languages:

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

[j_baker → icey]

Combined with this graph, I think that's a pretty reasonable argument:

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

Those languages are growing, but none of them are making significant gains in terms of marketshare.