There's definitely some movement here.
People have started to see that the promises of other newer stacks and programming languages haven't materialized.
part of what got me into ruby were meetups and cool people at those meetups, maybe I got older, but do meetups still happen? And attract an audience?<p>I did find <a href="https://rubyeurope.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rubyeurope.com/</a> and <a href="https://rubyconferences.org/meetups/" rel="nofollow">https://rubyconferences.org/meetups/</a>