it may just be my own circle, but comparing the Ruby folks I know from 10 years ago to the Ruby folks I know now... there's fewer of them, and those that remain using Ruby day to day never went in for those 'hacker signals'. But the Ruby folks I know from 10 years ago who've left and moved in to other arenas (like JavaScript) did throw use some of that sort of signaling.
it may just be my own circle, but comparing the Ruby folks I know from 10 years ago to the Ruby folks I know now... there's fewer of them, and those that remain using Ruby day to day never went in for those 'hacker signals'. But the Ruby folks I know from 10 years ago who've left and moved in to other arenas (like JavaScript) did throw use some of that sort of signaling.