An other Objective-C Runtime language, Nu, is already iOS and Linux compatible, but doesn't rely on Objective-C GC... nothing is impossible and this one is certainly worth it.
2011/1/25 Gary Weaver <gary.wea...@duke.edu> > Not trying to be a downer, because I really like the idea of it being more > accessible, but: > > Looks like no recent activity on PureFoundation: > https://code.google.com/p/purefoundation/ > http://www.puredarwin.org/purefoundation > > Some activity 3 months ago on opencflite, which there was claim that > PureFoundation might move to: > http://opencflite.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opencflite/ > > I don't get the feeling that these projects are active enough and have > enough behind them to get distracted from focusing on OS X, but maybe their > developers are just not committing code frequently? > > MacRuby on iOS would be neat, but from what I've read on the list, it isn't > happening anytime soon. > > Personally, I'm still hoping that someone picks up HotCocoa, but from what > I hear, the guys need to stayed focus on OS X, until more developers start > helping out. > > I noticed a few projects for Posix and Ruby and CFLite and Ruby, if you > google for it. Might not be what people need, but worth mentioning. > > > > On 1/25/11 12:05 PM, Adam Strzelecki wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> First of all I think MacRuby is amazing project, and one and only Ruby >> runtime/compiler (macrubyc) that is able to produce standalone >> self-contained binaries. Since I have used Ruby heavily to produce >> server-side applications rather than Cocoa based application and I am iPhone >> developer as well, I wish to ask if and what are the plans for extending >> MacRuby to other platforms like: >> >> (1) iOS - here I know the basic problem is lack of Obj-C GC. I've seen >> some post you're working on it, any clues about that? >> >> (2) any UNIX (POSIX) platforms (Linux servers) - most of tech MacRuby >> relays on is OpenSource including LLVM, Obj-C runtime... most except >> Foundation framework is closed-source and exists only on OSX, however >> there's CFLite and there were couple of tries to port Foundation to generic >> UNIX (POSIX), one of them is PureFoundation. >> >> Do you guys considered stripped down MacRuby version for any POSIX OS >> where Array, String and some core classes use some alternative >> implementation of Foundation or Foundation-free implementation? >> >> Regards, >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >
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