A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...

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 ...

I know some people who are currently working on a project for the US military (low security level, non-combat, human resources type data). An initial state of the project code was submitted to the ...

Late binding can give you a great deal of flexibility as a Visual Basic programmer, but it has a serious downside: It eliminates static-type checking and disables IntelliSense support. Late binding ...

JM: A dynamic language is one that can resolve types and kind of compiles on the fly; in that way it’s very dynamic. So, at runtime, the compiler does type-checking and syntax-checking as opposed to a ...

The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby -- which are popular for building Web applications -- has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun ...

The dynamic keyword brings exciting new features to C# 4. Find out how it works and why it simplifies a lot of your coding tasks, including some handy COM interop possibilities. The dynamic keyword ...

It would have been a nice thing to have. But all that that does is it lets static code host individual dynamic languages one at a time. Without the shared type system those dynamic languages cant talk ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby — which are popular for building Web applications — has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun ...