The optimisation of dynamic language runtimes has emerged as a critical research area in computer science, addressing the inherent challenges posed by languages whose types are resolved at runtime.

At Mix '07, Microsoft promised it would add dynamic-language support to Silverlight. As of this year's Mix '08 conference, it has done so. The way Microsoft is delivering support for Ruby, Python and ...

ActiveState Software has released a beta of Komodo 4.0, the next version of the company's IDE for dynamic Web development featuring client-side language support. The release extends dynamic language ...

Hey FF22, compare the amount of code required in your favorite dynamic language to F# or C# you'd be surprised how much code you can cut down if you use Linq, generics and anonymous functions. Also, ...

In this post, I briefly reference two interesting posts that fall into the camp of The Rise and Fall of Dynamic Languages. The first referenced post focuses on dynamic languages on the JVM and the ...

However, like any other tool, dynamic languages are not necessarily interchangeable. Each has its place in a programmer’s tool kit. We asked a group of luminaries in the scripting world for their ...

Microsoft is busy factoring in the growing use of dynamic languages in its planned upgrade to the Visual Studio software development platform. The upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release boosts ...

CIO.com – Scripting languages have been around pretty much since operating systems were built to stay resident — back to DOS JCL, and no I don’t mean that DOS. I mean the Disk Operating System for the ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...