Hipster is one of those words whose meanings have shifted over time towards their complete opposite. In this case I believe it goes hand in hand with the "hips

Hipster is one of those words whose meanings have shifted over time towards their complete opposite. In this case I believe it goes hand in hand with the "hipster look" growing into the mainstream a few years ago. With many people going for the "I'm not like other people" mindset, ironically they ended up looking like everyone else in the "hipster" group, thus kind of reversing the meaning of the word in the eyes of most people. <flameshield> In the case of the programming world, Ruby/RoR used to be the go-to hipster language/framework, but even as Rails grew into the mainstream with big actors like Microsoft adopting bits and pieces from it for their own tooling the label never really left, creating a situation where you have a big popular... hipster thing. </flameshield>