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As a counterpoint, I have been writing Ruby as a primary language for about five years, both as an employee and a consultant. I am consistently solicited for advice on both code and architecture in Ruby by colleagues to positive results (and I do the same, don't get me wrong--that's how collegiate relationships should work). And, yet, I had to google what POODR was. I've also never used Rails; on this Christmas morning I'm noodling on a Grape API that uses grape-swagger for API documentation.

I have never seen any resistance to experiments or diversity in the space. There's a happy path, but there's plenty of room, and welcoming communities, outside of it.

(I like JavaScript, too, for much the same reasons you do.)