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The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing ...

Java and Ruby are both open source languages ranked in the top 20 of the TIOBE index for most popular programming languages, at spots 2 and 13, respectively, for June 2020. If you want to learn a new ...

Ever since the invention of the computer, software development has been trending towards higher-level languages. From assembly language, to C, to C++, to Java, each step up has met with the same ...

Ruby experts compared the scripting languages of the rival PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) language and Java during a panel session at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco on Monday. After an ...

A key Java platform developer is moving forward with an experimental programming language dubbed Mirah, which attempts to meld the niceties of Ruby with the heavy-duty performance of Java. Mirah is ...

Charles Nutter remembers when, working as a Java architect, he attended a conference and saw the Ruby programming language for the first time. And he was blown away. “I was just stunned that I ...

For #4699, we removed the automatic initCause call for Java exceptions raised from Ruby. There were a few issues with that logic: Java does not automatically set cause for you, so there seemed to be a ...