Hey Bob, Have you seen the IB gem? It let's you use nibs with Rubymotion with minimal changes in your MacRuby code.
https://github.com/yury/ib Sent from my iPhone > On 05/11/2013, at 04:02, Robert Carl Rice <rice.au...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Nice that I sparked some discussion. > > One of the reasons that I continued to write MacRuby script even though Xcode > was giving me the warning that GC was deprecated is that I suspect that was a > mostly a political move to appease the egos of the IOS and ARC guys and also > to encourage programmers to write more efficient code. Even if Apple is > determined not to support GC on the mobile devices, there is probable no > really good technical reason to remove the capability for desktop apps. So I > would have been surprised if Apple had removed GC in Mavericks and I still > would be surprised if Apple does that anytime soon, if they do that at all. > > If would be a mistake, because the relative simplicity of script language > programming is what makes it possible for a lonesome programmer such as > myself to develop and maintain a couple of relatively large applications. The > problem with RubyMotion is that it does an end-run around Xcode and since my > apps do lots of initialization using NIB files it may be as much work for me > to convert to RubyMotion as it will be to rewrite in objective-C. > > I don't have any inside information on Apple's thinking, but I suspect that > may be worth the effort to upgrade MacRuby for Mavericks. I'll let you know > when I find out if the App Store will still still support MacRuby apps. > > Bob Rice > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel
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