Still very strong in NY, but everyone's looking for senior hires to do cleanup jobs to fix poorly implemented bolt-on caching schemes in ailing Rails projects.

Still very strong in NY, but everyone's looking for senior hires to do cleanup jobs to fix poorly implemented bolt-on caching schemes in ailing Rails projects. Ruby is still a great, powerful language, but in the last couple of years I've started to notice that it isn't getting the tooling love that it used to from the community. I'd still work in it for the right job, just like most any other language. Because tools are tools. Language shouldn't get as much emphasis as it does.