The horizon for functional programming is expanding with two languages in development, including Streem, from the founder of the Ruby language, and Mochi, which leverages Python. The brainchild of ...

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 ...

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 Algorithmia, a marketplace for ...

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 ...

The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar top 20 programming languages. Popularity consolidated in the top 20 programming languages in ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

JavaScript is now used by more than 16.4 million developers globally, says a survey of more than 19,000 coders – making it the world's most popular programming language "by a wide margin". SlashData's ...

By some benchmarks, Julia code can run 10X to 1,000X faster than Python—but there’s a reason it’s not a very popular ...