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Thanks for the reply.. I agree Scala and Clojure are interesting but Ruby seems to be the most in-demand so would like to pick it up first, I have used JRuby a bit and being able to use Java when necessary I think would definitely be beneficial, but overall it seems doing a lot of web apps in Java may not be as good idea as I had originally thought

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but Ruby seems to be the most in-demand so would like to pick it up first

One thing to remember is that almost every field is undeserved as far as developers go, so all most all languages have more jobs available than their are people to fill the roles. While I agree you have to ensure that their is a market for your interest, most of the first and second tier languages have plenty of market to not be a risky proposition.

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