Hmm. I would have to disagree with Atwood. Most software development is still on the desktop. That is to say, there is still a very, very large sector of chip designers, robotics, medical devices, embedded systems, aircraft/spacecraft/cars/etc., OSes, hand-held gadgets, blah blah blah that all write non-javascript, non-ruby stuff.

This website seems to be focused around the startup-website culture, so maybe this isn't the best crowd to reality-check. Sometimes a different perspective is useful, though.

As for Atwoods Law, that's pretty ridiculous.