Well put, sir. Well put. Met vriendelijke groet, Eloy Durán
On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Jean-Denis Muys wrote: > > I will be blunt: stay away from MacRuby and go with Objective-C. > > Before I get burned at the stake on this list, let me explain why. This stems > from an assumption I made from you question about your goal: > > Assumption: your goal is to become proficient in Cocoa [touch] programming as > fast as possible, starting from basically zero. > > If that assumption is wrong, then the conclusion might be too. > > MacRuby is very good already, but it's a far less treaded route. As a result, > you will have to load your brain with additional burden, always a difficult > proposition when learning: > > - Less applicable resources for learning: less examples, less books, less > blog posts, less people to help you out. > - So you will need to translate every example and snippet from Objective-C to > Ruby. This means you will effectively need to learn two languages instead of > one at the same time, together with Cocoa. > - You will need to translate every one of your question from Ruby to > Objective-C when posting to stackoverflow or Apple's forum, or risk getting > no answer. Sure you can stay in this list, but that's one less resource. > - Every time you face a difficult roadblock, you will necessarily have to > wonder "Is this me? Or is this MacRuby?". To answer that question for > certain, you will then port your code to Objective-C to make sure. > - You will face less understanding development tools. When you have an issue > with them, the official answer will be "MacRuby development is not > supported". With Xcode 4 being immature by itself, you probably don't want to > add an immature MacRuby to the mix. > > Now the MacRuby journey might taste a lot better, depending on you. And if > for you "the reward is the _journey_", you might consider it. > > On the practical details, what has been said still applies, with two small > corrections: > > - You also have ahead of time compilation with MacRuby. But arguably, you > don't care about that when learning. > - The job market for iOS programming is thriving, and for Mac programming is > getting a lot better. Sure, Ruby programmers are also in demand, but it's not > clear to me which market is actually better. One thing is for sure: demand > for iOS Ruby programmers is zero. > > Jean-Denis > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
