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 ...

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.

Like the fan bases of sports teams, the communities that follow competing technologies can get in each other’s faces. The same is often true of competing programming languages and frameworks, like ...