Performance in Ruby has improved. What people are using Ruby for seems to be constrained to "Rails" and Chef. At least going off the job ads in my area.
Meanwhile, Python, JS, Go, Java jobs run the gamut from webdev, ML, to game programming, and custom BI.
Not saying people aren't using Ruby out there, but 5-6 years ago it was all the rage. Couldn't turn around w/o bumping into a Ruby shop.
It seems to have settled into a Niche of "Rails devs" and Ruby fans using it.
There was a post about this a while ago but that's pretty US-centric.
In Japan there is a lot of attention on Embedded Ruby (hence the performance improvements). 99% of the professional Ruby work that I've done here in NY is not Rails. I've done everything from webdev (Jekyll, Sinatra), ETL work, to systems engineering all in Ruby. I've toyed around with Ruby & SDL but the performance at the time (4 years ago) was not good.
Meanwhile, Python, JS, Go, Java jobs run the gamut from webdev, ML, to game programming, and custom BI.
Not saying people aren't using Ruby out there, but 5-6 years ago it was all the rage. Couldn't turn around w/o bumping into a Ruby shop.
It seems to have settled into a Niche of "Rails devs" and Ruby fans using it.