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.

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

Top coders have near limitless prospects when it comes to employment, or even opportunities to succeed in their own startups. In fact, learning to code is fast becoming a necessary life skill, with ...

The Ruby language has been around since 1995 and still gets regular releases. But the language has dropped to 30th place in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, with Python cited as a ...

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 ...

Every few years something significant happens in the land of computer programming. In my opinion the Ruby computer language is such a landmark. Over the years I have seen programmer productivity go up ...

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 ...

Open source development tool GitHub released its annual ranking of programming languages. JavaScript claimed the top spot, a position its held since 2014. Most languages remained stagnant, with ...