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.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Ruby and Ruby on Rails exploded onto the web development scene in the early aughts. But while JavaScript and Python rule the roost today, Ruby still has its place.

Whether you decide to learn Python, Ruby, or C# (or any other language), you’re increasing your career prospects and gaining a valuable life skill that will serve you well in whatever you do next!

Ruby or Python? 5 tech leaders on why they chose their languages and frameworks. To learn about the advantages different technologies bring, we spoke with tech leaders at five Chicago companies.

PHP, Ruby, Python, and beyond -- developers weigh in on seven popular IDEs and tools aimed at dynamic languages ...

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.

Python 3, Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript algorithms are now welcome on Algorithmia. by Serdar Yegulalp. ... In Python’s case, Algorithmia is wise to support both Python 2.x and 3.x.

Ruby has a strong and active developer community. Ruby’s famed Rails framework has almost 3,500 contributors on GitHub.By contrast, the Django framework for Python has fewer than half as many ...

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 ...