I am seeing a fewer Rails jobs out there, it feels like they have been overtaken by new cool kid on the block - those js libraries. Is Rails a sinking ship now?<p>This question will help programmers who might be thinking of starting their career in Rails.
You don't want the Javascript jobs.<p>Rails is no longer bleeding-edge, but it is quite productive still and there will be gigs to come for another <i>decade</i> of helping do long-term support and maintenance on all the Rails stuff that sprang up in the last cycle.<p>Node/JS is probably going to die off in the face of better tech like Elixir and Elm.
A recent survey of startup tech floated on HN, and Ruby + Ruby on Rails took 30+%. Along with Python and others, the majority was sedate, but robust and mature technologies. I was pleased most startups are not wasting precious cycles chasing the hotness.