From: Robert Gleeson <rob@...>
Date: 2009-11-16T14:53:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice on setup on Mac

> Why bother?  The Ruby 1.8.7 interpreter that comes with Leopard and 
> later is perfectly adequate, unless you specifically want 1.9.
> 
Why bother? well, personally i don't develop on 18 anymore - so, yeah, I 
want a 19 implementation but macruby has a lot of interesting things 
going on, not to mention that it can compile to "highly optimized" OSX 
machine code. ( "highly optimized" taken from macruby.org, and only from 
macruby 0.5b )
You've also got Obj C's GC to boot.

> Again, probably not.  This is not my area of expertise, but I think most 
> people use RubyCocoa for cocoa development.

I advise you to watch the video i posted in my first post :-) He goes 
into all the problems that RubyCocoa has, RubyCocoa is a "bridge" 
between C & Obj C but MacRuby has direct access to the Cocoa API on top 
of the Obj C runtime - it also has hotcocoa, which is a *damn* cool 
abstract API to cocoa for writing sexy GUI apps easily.

Nothing wrong with the official interpreter of course - i use it 
everyday, but i think you'd be crazy not to try macruby if you're on a 
Mac and moving away from 18(As far as I know, macruby will be the 
official 19 interpreter on OSX)

Rob
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