The recent “failure” of the Chandler PIM project generated the question, “Can Dynamic Languages Scale?” on TheServerSide, and, as is all too typical these days, it turned into a “You suck”/”No you ...

Large codebases are more difficult to maintain when they are written in dynamic languages. At least that’s what Yevgeniy Brikman, lead developer bringing the Play Framework to LinkedIn says in a video ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...

Statically typed languages are those in which you would need to specify the type of an object at the time when you define it. Examples of statically typed languages include C#, VB, and C++. On the ...

The busy folks at Forrester Research have released another report, this time breaking down the growing segment of dynamic languages. The third quarter Forrester Wave report looked at five dynamic ...

Microsoft has released a new Dynamic Language Runtime to support various dynamic languages running on the .Net platform. eWEEK senior editor Darryl K. Taft spoke with Microsoft dynamic language gurus ...

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and Sun Microsystems' director of Web technologies, hosted a lively post-Script Bowl panel discussion on the future of dynamic scripting languages at this year's JavaOne ...

It's code name central at Mix '07 in Las Vegas this week. On May 2 at Microsoft's Web 2.0 conference, officials are set to put "Jasper," a k a "Dynamic ADO.Net," through its paces. In a session ...

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.

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eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...