Not exactly. The current trend is towards the JVM, but not Java. I wrote about this last week: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-jvm-is-part-of-a-world

Not exactly. The current trend is towards the JVM, but not Java. I wrote about this last week: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-jvm-is-part-of-a-world-wide-conversation http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-jvm-is-part-of-a-... Even the cutting edge of Ruby is now on the JVM, as Rubyists see a need for threads and find jRuby the most convenient way to move forward: http://tonyarcieri.com/2012-the-year-rubyists-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-threads http://tonyarcieri.com/2012-the-year-rubyists-learned-to-sto... Rails took off in 2004 as a rebellion against the overly-heavy Java frameworks like Struts. But now what good ideas Rails offered have been incorporated into languages that run on the JVM, and a lot of innovation, in particular with concurrency, is happening on the JVM, and some of those things are areas where Ruby (other than JRuby) is weak.