Your personal experience doesn't invalidate the claim that Ruby is declining. COBOL programmers are in hot demand because there are so few left that even the f

Your personal experience doesn't invalidate the claim that Ruby is declining. COBOL programmers are in hot demand because there are so few left that even the few positions where they are needed outnumbers them. Look at objective numbers on language popularity, job boards, etc... You'll see that Ruby has pretty much vanished.