From: Chris White <cwprogram@...>
Date: 2011-10-22T23:18:47+09:00
Subject: Re: macruby versus MRI 1.9


> I was wondering what the differences between these two releases are. I was
> looking over the code and it does seem that macruby is sort of a fork of the
> MRI 1.9 release. Is this correct?

The MacRuby homepage ( http://www.macruby.org/ ) explains it pretty well imho. In essence it lets Ruby run on the Mac OSX Objective C runtime (GC, etc) and lets it access the various frameworks it exposes (Cocoa). In essence you can use it to write OSX apps without resorting to cross platform gui solutions like QT or wxWindows. Theoretically you could probably do it using MRI and C extensions but that's kind of painful. 

- Chris
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