Igor, That's terrific… Thanks.
-B On Oct 16, 2011, at 1:07 AM, Igor Evsukov wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > All Cocoa API's are written in C/Objective-C and even now, when we can write > apps in Ruby You still need to now them at least to be able to read > documentation. > >> Does Xcode treat Ruby as family, or is it a stepchild toiling in the ashes? >> Are there other tools I'll need? > No. Xcode has only basic support for MacRuby development. (it sucks for > Objective-C development too, but this is whole different story) > >> What's Apple's attitude toward Ruby applications? > Nobody knows for sure. MacRuby ships as Lion's private framework and some it > system are written in MacRuby. So, I think, when MacRuby will be mature > enough it will become one of the official ways to write Mac/iOS apps. > >> Can Ruby take advantage of the (finally!) modern memory management features >> released with iOS 5? > No. Garbage Collection and Automatic Reference Counting are two very > different things. And it's impossible to make Ruby to use ARC. > >> Basically, "If you were me, what would you do, and what order might you do >> it in?" > If You need to start develop Mac app tomorrow – stick with Objective-C. > Otherwise - learn ObjC a little bit and then try to develop apps with MacRuby. > >
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