Report: Developers are Struggling with Open Source20181227080639
Report: Developers are Struggling with Open Source
This article was originally published in SDTimes. Developers say that replicating environments and maintaining proper information about the quality of...
Perl – The Secret Workhorse20160303170000
Perl – The Secret Workhorse
Something we’ve been aware of at ActiveState for a long time, but the industry at large doesn’t seem to know, is that Perl is the secret workhorse...
Python Cons20160217170000
Python Cons
Yes, the title of this blog is a three-way pun, although neither Lisp nor conferences will be mentioned. There was a nice article on Quora recently re...
Top 7 Blogs for 201520151230170000
Top 7 Blogs for 2015
It’s that time of year again – our favourite blogs of the year! The selection criterion was simple: which blogs did we remember the most, ...
ActivePython vs. Open Source Python: What’s the Difference20151105170000
ActivePython vs. Open Source Python: What’s the Difference
November 5, 2015activeperl, activepython, activetcl, business edition, community edition, dynamic languages, enterprise edition, oem edition, open source, perl, python0 comments
I recently stumbled upon on old forum question inquiring why someone would use ActivePython instead of Python. That prompted me to write this blog, b...
NetBeans Drops Python Support as Komodo Adds More20110331165616
NetBeans Drops Python Support as Komodo Adds More
March 31, 2011dynamic languages, komodo, komodo edit, komodo ide, netbeans, pylint, python0 comments
A couple of months the ago the NetBeans project announced that it was abandoning support for Ruby. This week word spread that they were dropping Pytho...
Curse less with Python20110228225609
Curse less with Python
“As any programmer can tell you, programming will make you swear. But did you know that writing C++ will make you swear considerably more than P...
Over 60% using dynamic languages in mission-critical applications20100301173924
Over 60% using dynamic languages in mission-critical applications
In our blog post a few weeks ago entitled “What Managers don’t know about their developers using open source components“, we discuss...
Dynamic Language Use Pops in Asia20081216194252
Dynamic Language Use Pops in Asia
According to eWeek.com, dynamic language use is soaring in Asia, with more than 88 percent of developers in a recent survey saying they use some dynam...