Java Hate vs. The Bay Area

Yes... I admit it... I hate Java.

I have hated Java for one reason or another for as long as I can remember. In my opinion it is a bloated development platform with too many hands in its pot. There is just too many ways of doing the same thing. This causes major integration issues and makes the code difficult to retrofit with newer technologies. Now I know that this hatred probably really stems from me dealing with corporate code design and coded in the most part by people either just learning Java or by someone who thinks they can code Java properly, but still with all the other options out there you would think there would have been some shift in the market already.

Well I guess you could... I was unaware until my recent foray into job boards based outside of the Bay Area. To my surprise there was little jabs out there looking for Java programmers... I don't know if this is because they were all taken by programmers who are ingraining themselves in their job and those jobs just never become available or if it is truly a shift in technology... but I deff saw more Ruby on Rails and ASP.net C# jobs out there.

When I looked at some job boards in the Bay Area there was a substantial increase of Java positions available... So my question is... why is it that the Bay Area loves Java so much? Is it that it is unwilling to adapt to new technologies? Could it be that Sun for the most part is located there? Or could it just be that there are more jobs here?

I don't know that the answer is... all I know is that all the job searches I do from now on will always exclude the word Java from it........... there is just too much good stuff out there right now to be playing with that junk.