Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby ...

Microsoft-owned online code-hosting service GitHub has detailed its massive upgrade to version 2.7 of the Ruby programming language, which it deployed to production in July after a months-long project ...

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.