On Jun 25, 2009, at 19:49 , Matt Aimonetti wrote: > This kind of crap is worse than just about anything MS ever did, and > is the reason I can't see myself ever getting an iPhone. Just saying. > > > I believe that the main reason for that decision was to keep the > device secure and efficient. > Interpreted languages are slower and require more resources. Now, if > he can manage to get > his js code to run on top of the obj-c runtime, he can compile down > to binary like MacRuby > is trying to do. If he would to use webkit I can tell you his apps > were dead slow.
Yes, I'm sure that extracting a considerable amount more money from each iPhone owner by charging for every software install was just a happy side effect. > Targeting all these platforms is an honorable choice, but it's very > challenging, especially nowadays with the various APIs you have to > deal with. > Challenging doesn't mean impossible and we will see once the mac > version will be stable to use, people might get really excited and > push > the dev further. Andrew has proven several times over that he is very capable of doing this. The first couple of years of REALbasic development was with Andrew as the only developer. In that time, he developed an IDE and compiler for Mac, Windows and Java. If anyone think this idea has promise, I encourage them to start participating. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
