Getting it onto App Engine seems as good a reason as any to convert Ruby bytecode to Python. That's why why created Unholy, a compiler that tries to make the two popular languages interconvertible. No ...

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Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel processing ...

Okay, something finally snapped and it's time to give up Perl and learn a better scripting language. The two that I have under consideration are Ruby and Python although other suggestions are ...

Top coders have near limitless prospects when it comes to employment, or even opportunities to succeed in their own startups. In fact, learning to code is fast becoming a necessary life skill, with ...

The increasing popularity of dynamic languages has given rise to a growing arsenal of development tools tailored to developers using languages like Ruby, PHP, and Python. So widespread is the array of ...

The service for building and hosting algorithms and monetizing them as APIs will also support the standard repositories for third-party code used by each language Algorithmia, a marketplace for ...

For startup founders, picking the languages and frameworks that shape the core product will have major implications for as long as that product is around. Languages and frameworks determine the talent ...

A new project initiated by IBM to create a toolkit for language runtimes is about to go open source, and it could be used to speed up the performance of existing runtimes for many languages. The OMR ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.