There may well be less stand alone applications being developed, but I have a hunch that the number of developers needed in a desktop application startup is substantially higher than the number of developers needed for a web application.
If the scripting languages that are used have a 10:1 LOC advantage over Java/C/C++, then with an equal number of applications being developed, I'd assume that there would be 10x as many Java/C/C++ jobs available as Python/Ruby jobs.
I'm wondering why there aren't more IronPython/IronRuby/F#/Powershell focused startups in the Microsoft world. It would seem like a competitive advantage.
If the scripting languages that are used have a 10:1 LOC advantage over Java/C/C++, then with an equal number of applications being developed, I'd assume that there would be 10x as many Java/C/C++ jobs available as Python/Ruby jobs.
I'm wondering why there aren't more IronPython/IronRuby/F#/Powershell focused startups in the Microsoft world. It would seem like a competitive advantage.