Perhaps I have a skewed perspective (it happens :-), but it seems as if the ruby-talk mailing list has become rather "calm" in recent months. While Ruby-core appears to have a bit of activity, much of it seems a response to the stillness on talk. And alternate Ruby lists seem to have fallen largely silent, with one expection: Rails. So I wonder, is Ruby at risk of becoming little more than a subset techonolgy of Rails? T.