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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

What’s more, proof-of-concept implementations for Ruby and Python are already in the works, with the Ruby variant set to be open-sourced shortly. Pick up the pieces.

Programming languages: Go, Scala and Ruby most wanted, Python and JavaScript most used Written by Steve Ranger, Global News Director Feb. 11, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. PT ...