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 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.

Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of rich Internet applications that leverage the company’s Silverlight browser plug-in technology ...

Should You Learn Python, C, or Something Else Entirely? Of course, much of your decision about which coding language to start out on depends on what you want to be able to do or create with it.

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 ...

Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python with support.

Although even now Ruby on Rails remains a more popular framework over Python’s Django, it also means Ruby has remained restricted to web development framework while Python has diversified and emerged ...

Compared to their positions a year ago, Ruby, Assembly, Python, and R fare well in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity. But the index’s author isn’t sold on all of these ...

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 ...