[nobleach]

I've been noticing how many recruiters have been reaching out to me with Ruby jobs. I try and explain that "Yes, I did Rails 2.3 and 3.x back in the day - but that was a LONG time ago". That doesn't seem to dissuade them in the slightest. Now, on one hand, recruiters are a hungry bunch. On the other, it's interesting to me how big of a need this is right now.

My guess is, that a ton of this stuff was built in the 2010s. Those Ruby developers have moved on... leaving a ton of infra behind. There's a desperate need for folks to come in and get to work on it. Most of these shops say things like, "all of our new stuff is in Elixir, but we still need to support all the old Rails stuff"

All I can say is, it's probably better than coming in to support VB... or COBOL!