Report: Developers are Struggling with Open Source20181227080639
Report: Developers are Struggling with Open Source
December 27, 2018developers, dynamic languages, open source, survey results
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
March 3, 2016dynamic languages, jeff rouse, perl
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 acr...
Python Cons20160217170000
Python Cons
February 17, 2016cython, dynamic languages, perl, python
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
December 30, 2015activepython, dynamic languages, IoT, python gui programming
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, python
I recently stumbled upon on old forum question inquiring why someone would use ActivePython instead of Python. That prompted me to write this blo...
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, python
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
February 28, 2011activepython, dynamic languages, programming languages, 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...
Release the L♥VE!20110214080000
Release the L♥VE!
February 14, 2011activeperl, activepython, activetcl, dynamic languages
Who doesn’t love fresh bits? We’ve been working hard to bring you a Valentine’s day treat. Today, we have a full set of new distribu...
New Poll Results: Top 2 Reasons Enterprise Developers Use Dynamic Languages20100316000153
New Poll Results: Top 2 Reasons Enterprise Developers Use Dynamic Languages
March 16, 2010activeperl, activestate, computer, computer associates, dynamic languages, enterprise open source, siteminder
Today we are announcing the results of an informal survey of enterprise software architects and developers that found developers benefit greatly from ...
Over 60% using dynamic languages in mission-critical applications20100301173924
Over 60% using dynamic languages in mission-critical applications
March 1, 2010dynamic languages, enterprise applications, indemnification, licensing
In our blog post a few weeks ago entitled “What Managers don’t know about their developers using open source components“, we discuss...