On 16/10/2011, at 10:12 AM, Bryan Harrison wrote: > Objective-C is not without a certain homely charm, but Ruby is obviously the > more modern language. So… > > • Does Xcode treat Ruby as family, or is it a stepchild toiling in the > ashes? Are there other tools I'll need? > > • What's Apple's attitude toward Ruby applications? > > • Can Ruby take advantage of the (finally!) modern memory management > features released with iOS 5? > > • Will I end up have having learn Objective-C regardless? > > Basically, "If you were me, what would you do, and what order might you do it > in?"
Hi Bryan, Your 5-10 year time frame is a key factor. I started developing an app for the Mac circa 2003 in RealBasic. A couple of years ago I converted it to MacRuby (wrote a convertor in Ruby to do this then manually tweaked). This was after getting to know Ruby through Rails. Despite (or perhaps because of) a background in C years ago, I've tried to avoid Objective-C, although I've read the Hillegass book and done some of the examples. I just prefer Ruby for various reasons. I'm using TextMate for editing the code and XCode for running it. I'm not trying to ship a product yet, so I can live with the occasional MacRuby teething problems. They will be fixed in time. On OSX, MacRuby does do modern memory management, which is a big plus IMHO. Paul Howson ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Howson Warwick Qld Australia _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
