Almost 12 years ago I answered a StackOverflow question is ruby on rails (or at least the community) dying? [closed] with [there is] still [a] very active community around it. Today, 2022, I see this declining more rapidly than before. The most obvious (and unscientific) place to look is Google Trends. For both Ruby, and Ruby on Rails, we see a clear downward trend for years. First a sharp bump, t