They’ll be getting nervous too at some point the agentic port will come for cobol. The past hesitation and risk aversion will subside once the less risky stuff is addressed. Once someone big enough sets a precedent, it will gain momentum

The market being what it is, I took a job in ColdFusion last year.

There are people here who have worked in the same CF codebase for over twenty years. They might start and finish their careers in a language everyone else forgot about decades ago.

I think Ruby has enough momentum that career Rubyists will have a home for as long as they want one.