Too long for a tweet...so, I tweeted this:
"One trend I'm observing is a lot of rubyists being fed up with messy ruby ecosystem are getting excited or even switch to clojure."
People asked me to comment further, so here it goes. First of all I said I'm seeing a trend, which is a fact. I know people who are learning Clojure (and other languages like some people pointed out) hoping to switch from Ruby or they even already left Ruby. Those people got tired of something I called "a messy ecosystem". Maybe not the best selection of words, I dunno. I meant that some people, myself included, find ruby ecosystem - which consists of multiple VMs, practically one web framework and a gazillion of libraries from which huge amount are only semi-working - to be a mess where it's hard to pick up a solid stack to solve bigger problems.
I really don't have time (which is a shame) to come up with some specific details. I could maybe only quickly describe what we're dealing with now at gitorious.org which is being upgraded t