Despite his criticism, Rubinius X backer Brian Shirai still loves Ruby and wants to make it more open to networked computing All appearances of condemnation aside, proponents of the Rubinius X project ...

Ruby, a dynamic language first released in 1995, has been praised for its simplicity and routinely shows up on lists of popular languages. It’s had its critics over the years as well, and two of the ...

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 latest edition of the TIOBE Index that plots the popularity of programming languages focuses on the reascendance of Ruby in the rankings. "Ruby is currently at position 8 in the TIOBE index," said ...