"...enterprise dev is a tiny percentage of all devs outthere."
I may be terribly confused here, but I'm pretty sure this is the precise opposite of the facts. In terms of jobs, all the OSS languages TOGETHER are not as popular as Java alone, never mind adding in C#/.NET. It's a common misunderstanding, but one that seems unlikely to do a young coder any good...
It's HN bias. Enterprise rarely gets talked about (because by its nature it rarely does cutting edge things) but is still the huge mass of the iceberg under the water.
I may be terribly confused here, but I'm pretty sure this is the precise opposite of the facts. In terms of jobs, all the OSS languages TOGETHER are not as popular as Java alone, never mind adding in C#/.NET. It's a common misunderstanding, but one that seems unlikely to do a young coder any good...