Getting Started with MacRuby

This was the thing that sold me:

  $ macirb
  >> ''.class
  => NSMutableString

MacRuby is Obj-C! Of course, this works both ways: some stdlib stuff is currently less reliable than using the Cocoa framework equivalent.

Either way they're making really awesome progress and it's an exciting project to watch.

Not a Ruby guy but I saw a small presentation on this at a dev meetup a few days ago. Having worked with Objective-C for a bit this looks like a beautiful way to pass over some of the very um, verbose hurdles that Objective-C tosses at you.