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Ruby’s decline in popularity may be permanent
Still in the top 10 of RedMonk’s language rankings, Ruby faces tough competition from Go, Rust, Swift, and Kotlin
Ruby’s decline in popularity may be permanent
Still in the top 10 of RedMonk’s language rankings, Ruby faces tough competition from Go, Rust, Swift, and Kotlin
Google App Engine adds C#, Node.js, and Ruby options
Google has also moved the Cloud Functions serverless environment to beta release
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ActiveState adds enterprise editions of Ruby, Node, Go, and Lua
New editions join ActiveState's professional-grade language lineup, which already includes Python, Perl, and Tcl
Ruby creator floats new concurrency model
The new concurrency and parallelism model, called Guild, would feature thread safety, but isn't expected before 2020
Ruby creator floats new concurrency model
The new concurrency and parallelism model, called Guild, would feature thread safety, but isn't expected before 2020
How RASP protects applications from attacks
Runtime application self protection technologies mitigate application-level vulnerabilities right from the runtime engine, such as the JVM
Swagger stumbles: Flaw enables remote code execution
Swagger's code generators and parsers forgot the core tenet of software development, which is never to trust user input
The end of BigLittle: Ruby unifies integer classes
Language founder Yukihiro Matsumoto says the general release of Ruby 2.4.0, currently available as a preview, will come in December
Python 3, Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript algorithms are now welcome on Algorithmia
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
Ruby again shines in language popularity
The language jumps seven spots from a year ago in Tiobe's index, while C's popularity takes a big hit
Admins: Don't wait for ImageMagick patch
Millions of websites are vulnerable to flaws in the ImageMagick image processing tool
RubyGems.org warns developers to verify gems for file tampering
While RubyGems.org believes none of the gems have been maliciously modified, authors should check and verify
Ruby on Rails fixes multiple input validation vulnerabilities
Ruby on Rails fixed six vulnerabilities in versions 3.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and Rails 5.0 beta and three in rails-html-sanitizer
Ruby on Rails takes on Node.js with WebSocket support, API mode
The first beta for the 5.0 edition of the popular Web framework for Ruby is out, with WebSockets support as a major feature -- and with Ruby 2.2.2 as a requirement
IBM's open source JVM project could also speed Ruby, Python
IBM's internal OMR project makes maintaining JVM easier across platforms -- and may give other languages a performance boost
The state of Ruby and Rails: Opportunities and obstacles
Developer demand for Ruby and Rails remain high, but the specific ways both language and framework shine (or don't) are crucial to know
Ruby pioneers come clean on the language's shortcomings
Ruby founder Yukihiro Matsumoto and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson offer frank feedback on the language.
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