This is exciting news! Really looking forward to the future of Rails!

Edit: Hope to get an ecosystem similar to Laravel's with this!

Just curious, since I know nothing about Laravel. What things about the Laravel ecosystem are you talking about?

I know the Rails community has diminished somewhat in recent years. Are you talking about the people or tools/libraries?

Basically what @clivestaples already said. If you go to the Laravel Website [1] and look through "Ecosystem" in the navigation - that's what I am missing from Rails. And of course a more active community.

[1] https://laravel.com/

I'd say the Rails community has been a flat-line somewhat... but not diminished. Yes, it may not have been the hottest framework, but it's been rolling forward consistently and actively.

Not the OP but officially sanctioned tools and libraries are exactly what I envy from Laravel: auth, search, payments, hosting, etc.

This is great news for the Rails community! Looking forward to what this will bring.

Exciting! Let's see how this develops.