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Author here, thanks for posting this! Any questions, comments or "You're wrong and this is why" let me know :) I do find myself wondering about the future of Rails (and I guess the wider Ruby ecosystem) though. I'm definitely in the "you can prise it from my cold, dead hands" camp but after years of watching them both slide down developer surveys it does make me concerned.

I'm kinda attached to "odd" outsider technologies like the Amiga and BeOS (which does make me wonder if there's a common thread there) so am used to seeing old packages and documentation gradually fade away but that's clearly not something that points to a sustainable future.

There's enough of the core components still active and after 20-odd years you could just say "it's done" (as I allude to in the Wrap Up) but I do wonder how many here would start a new project on Rails or make a Ruby platform a critical part of a new start-up ?