From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-02-01T22:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: MacRuby 0.5

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On Jan 31, 7:55�pm, Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansone...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> MacRuby is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac
>> OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and
>> garbage collector, the CoreFoundation framework and the LLVM compiler
>> infrastructure. While still a work in progress, it is the goal of
>> MacRuby to enable the creation of full-fledged Mac OS X applications
>> which do not sacrifice performance in order to enjoy the benefits of
>> using Ruby.
> 
> Anything you can say about MacRuby on the iPad? I'd love to be able to
> develop full-fledged iPad apps using Ruby.

That's been possible for iPhone apps for a while with RubyCocoa and 
various other tools.  I don't know whether MacRuby would be any 
advantage here -- it might.

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