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If you lump Android into the Java category it makes the top of the list. Unless Android is a new language I haven't heard of.

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yeah... I figured it did represent something distinct in peoples hiring intentions so was worth splitting out. From a straight language POV you'd be right but I think it would miss some interesting subtelty in the stats. Also, from talking to people hiring android devs I know they'd rather they had adnroid development experience, not just any old java experience.

Maybe I should put a few different versions together to allow for a straight language shoot out and then also capture some of the other interesting comparrisons separately.

Object C is a language that isn't specific to iOS development, too.

I'd be curious what % of Obj-c work done these days is iOS vs straight mac development vs other.

That's a good point, but I think it's segmented by skill-set, and Android development is seen as a significant subset perhaps.

True in other Java spheres as well. Someone writing servlets will have almost nothing in common, knowledge-wise, with someone writing Android apps. And then you have EJB, which is something else entirely.

It's like Java is English, and the job ads are for working on fantasy, sci-fi, and an encyclopedia. You have to know it, but it's a tiny fraction of what you need to know.

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