[torben-friis]

Yup. I don't mind switching languages, I've done it a few times and I enjoy learning new things.

The market for ruby seems to have good salaries and job satisfaction despite being smallish, so it didn't seem like a bad area to get some experience in.

Why, is there any issue with the choice I'm not aware of?

[ksec]

>Why, is there any issue with the choice I'm not aware of?

No, not at all. I was just interested since there is a sudden influx of people joining Ruby ( I guess mostly Rails ) companies without previous Ruby background. As I have notice this across HN, Reddit, Twitter and elsewhere. And yes Ruby market tends to be on the slightly higher end because they mostly hire people with years of programming experiences and lack of junior position. And there used to be complains about not being able to find people with Ruby / Rails experiences etc. So it is a good market shift I guess.

[torben-friis]

Ah well, as soon as I even glanced at Ruby my social media feeds were filled with tech influencers.

There is a niche there of very popular channels producing Ruby tutorials, seemingly aimed at the junior js-bootcamp dev crowd. They also focus on Neovim, tmux and other terminal based tools.

It is a completely anecdotal observation, but my guess is that it might explain part of the trend.