From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-16T15:10:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice on setup on Mac

Robert Gleeson wrote:
>> 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.

Interesting.  I confess that I don't know much about MacRuby.  I may now 
have to find out.

> 
> 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

I thought the MacRuby project was stalled or abandoned.  Am I wrong?

> (As far as I know, macruby will be the 
> official 19 interpreter on OSX)

What do you mean? 1.9 is already available for Mac, and the official 
interpreter isn't MacRuby.

Or are you saying that Apple is planning to include MacRuby 1.9 in 
future developer toolkits?

> 
> Rob

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