[jaredcwhite]

To a certain extent I agree, only in some respects I'm the opposite regarding point 1. I still work exclusively on Ruby on Rails projects (on the backend, frontend is trending towards Vue.js usage now), and that's actually proven quite successful lately. Clients that aren't super tech-savvy don't really care what I'm using as long as it works and I can get it done in a speedy fashion (which I can because I know Rails like the back of my hand), and the tech-savvy clients that come to me do so because they have an existing Rails codebase that needs upgrades, enhancements, etc. I can't tell you how many times I've heard "man, I'm so glad I found you...it's hard to find any Ruby programmers!" Makes me wonder if the death of Ruby as a career path is greatly exaggerated...

[varunvkrishnan]

Agreed and this is probably true for most "legacy" languages - for example there is still very much a market for COBOL, REXX, etc and it does pay well. However the flip side is that the size of the niche market gets smaller over time.