MacRuby 0.5 Released: A Significant, Stable Release

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38 pointsjmonegro4 comments

macruby is an awesome project, when the project releases a 1.0 release, they will show all the other ruby implementations that you can have a fast ruby implementation. And hopefully this will make its way to the iphone and ipad.

I'm more excited about how well it integrates with Objective-C to be honest. I think all objects are descendants of NSObject, right? It's got a lot of innovative stuff like that to tie in with Objective-C including frameworks like WebKit.

I really hope that MacRuby is the answer to "unsigned app execution" because the interpreter can be controlled to whatever issues arise (ie. bandwidth, etc.)

MacRuby doesn't run on an interpreter, it has several ways of running with JIT bytecode compiling as its default.

The biggest hurdle for MacRuby is that it uses garbage collection, which isn't available on the iPhone OS.

Applications will still need to be 'signed' to run on the iPhone.

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