[KronisLV]

I don't know, to me Ruby just feels like a slightly more user friendly PHP.

Vaguely similar in performance to Python and PHP (not an order of magnitude off), slower than Java and .NET (for typical web based workloads with mainstream frameworks, .e.g Rails vs Django vs Laravel vs Spring Boot vs ASP.NET), still good enough for most web projects out there.

Even Rails just seems like your average flagship framework, if not an entire platform - certainly on the heavy side, with its own quirks and opinions, but definitely a safe option for getting things done.

It's jarring to see Ruby's popularity be on the decline, though you could also say the same about PHP in many cases.