Sounds like the trend is to follow Java (to certain extend, if you ignore the de...

lkrubner · on Dec 28, 2012

Not exactly. The current trend is towards the JVM, but not Java. I wrote about this last week: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-jvm-is-part-of-a-...

Even the cutting edge of Ruby is now on the JVM, as Rubyists see a need for threads and find jRuby the most convenient way to move forward: http://tonyarcieri.com/2012-the-year-rubyists-learned-to-sto...

Rails took off in 2004 as a rebellion against the overly-heavy Java frameworks like Struts. But now what good ideas Rails offered have been incorporated into languages that run on the JVM, and a lot of innovation, in particular with concurrency, is happening on the JVM, and some of those things are areas where Ruby (other than JRuby) is weak.

edwinnathaniel · on Dec 28, 2012

I see 2 trends here:

Trend #1: modular components

Trend #2: platform (performance optimization as well)

What you described falls into #2 while what I refer to falls into #1.