Will hybrid languages like D render functional languages like Haskell, OCaml...
Although it hasn’t (yet?) caught on much in industry, anyone who follows modern computing trends will no doubt have heard of D. Its Web site describes it quite nicely: D is a systems programming...
View ArticleScalability in the age of Ruby on Rails
As most people involved with Web development know, Ruby on Rails 2.0 was released on December 7. There was some discussion about the release on Slashdot, where I noticed some interesting comments...
View ArticleOthers are leaving Ruby on Rails, as well. And it’s not going well.
Several months back, there was somewhat of an uproar in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails communities when it was revealed that after two years of effort, the CD Baby Web site was abandoning their Ruby on...
View ArticleA small example of the hidden dangers of dynamically typed programming languages
Several days back I wrote about how unit testing is not a substitute for static typing. A comment posted to that article by James asked for more clarification regarding what I was talking about. James...
View ArticleWhy Did GNUstep Never Really Take Off?
About a month ago, I considered the factors that were holding back one open source project with much potential, Parrot. Today I will do the same for another open source project: . Mac OS X knows the...
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