From: Carter Cheng <cartercheng@...>
Date: 2011-10-24T03:16:06+09:00
Subject: Re: macruby versus MRI 1.9

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Thank Chris. I was actually more interested in this from an internals
perspective. I was wondering how effective LLVM is as a JIT system and
whether there are/were any large source changes.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Chris White <cwprogram@live.com> wrote:

>
> > 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
> Twitter @cwgem
>
>

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