Those are all interesting and useful points and I appreciate everyone's willing
to respond at length. As always, I wonder why extraordinary generosity isn't
part of the geek stereotype.
Since I'm interested in developing for both OS X and iOS, "no Ruby on iOS" is
the clincher. And given that
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 Ru
wn and also have some idea how both ways
> work.
>
> Using that approach I've been able to get by with relatively little actual
> coding in Obj-c, but I've still needed to learn a working knowledge of it.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Alex
>
> On 16 Oct 2011, at 01
Thanks - that's helpful. You've confirmed a lot of what I suspected, and saved
me some time and distraction.
Regards,
Bryan
On Oct 15, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Elliot Temple wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Bryan Harrison wrote:
>
>> Older & Wisers:
Older & Wisers:
Having done enough web development, network design, and systems administration
for one lifetime, I've decided this winter is a fine time to leave all that
behind and become an applications developer. Wanting to make consumer products
and having no interest in Windows, most of t
Tim,
I'm about where you are, though I've decided to swat up both MacRuby and O-C,
and am starting with O-C.
I've pretty much puzzled my way through the Xcode 3 vs 4 changes, and would be
happy to exchange chat addresses if you'd like to be able to fire off the
occasional WTF?
-Bryan
On Apr
What, no iRuby?
On Apr 3, 2011, at 3:46 AM, Ben Rimmington wrote:
> I'm an iOS developer, and I haven't tried MacRuby yet, but it appears to be a
> good alternative to Objective-C.
>
> Assuming that MacRuby will be used on iOS devices in the future, perhaps the
> framework (and project) sho
Forgive me for not saying "thanks" individually, but you've all been so
generous with your time and thoughts that doing so would clutter up the list.
;)
If anyone's curious, my immediate reaction is that I'll learn both, starting by
devoting a week to each just to get a feel and figure out whi
I've decided to use an upcoming sabbatical to teach myself OS X and iOS
programming. My background includes OS X systems administration and web
development, mostly using the Apache/MySQL/PHP model. I'm familiar with OOP
concepts and have trifled with any number of languages from C to AppleScri
