Can any language make a comeback to its original popularity? I would argue they can’t because they where overhyped.

I’m not interested in getting back to the overhyped level of popularity. That kept me away from Ruby on Rails for a while. But getting to a “mature” point where we can admin, no we are not dying and yes we are one of the better solutions for web development, would be nice. Also the job market adjust to it would be nice in that it gets used to having people switch to Ruby from other languages again.

The next hype bubble that hits the Ruby community is probably going to be something not related to web development. Look at Python and Machine Learning.