Early today, I stumbled upon ClarkGoble's blog. Definitely worth reading. There's been some online commentary about Apple's limited support for AppleScript. In a fairly recent posting, Clark commented ...

Picking the right programming language can overwhelm some developers, given the sheer number of factors to consider. Python and Ruby both sit high on developers' lists, mainly because of their ease of ...

I was planning to learn a new "lightweight" language for "fun and profit" and came across python and ruby. I first started to learn ruby, then python... forgot about ruby... and now remembered of it ...

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. If you’ve been around the world of ...

But which one will give you the most bang for your buck? Even if you’re learning how to code free online, it’s an investment of your time. You want to be sure you’re learning the language that will be ...

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 ...

The rumors about the demise of Ruby have been circulating the developer world for years and articles prophesying the “death” of Ruby appear with amazing regularity. Yet, the language and its main ...

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.