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.

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 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 ...

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.

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

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.

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of ...

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 ...