[sanderjd]

It's just you! The Ruby community, especially the Rails portion, is undergoing a fantastic philosophical and tooling maturation, which is pushing its viability past its former fast-paced start-up confines and into a larger, but perhaps less sexy market. I'm not sure which companies and projects you're specifically referring to, but while we're throwing out anecdotes, it seems to me that companies "moving away" from Ruby are making pragmatic decisions in response to specific pain points, while keeping Ruby in place where it better solves other pain points. That's how it's supposed to work!