Hi Bryan,
I see that many people responded to that thread, but I would like to still add
the following points:
1) MacRuby can't be used for iOS programming at this time.
2) In order to fully program in Objective-C, you must know C first. If you're a
seasoned C programmer, picking Objective-C s
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
On 31 Mar 2011, at 04:43, Bryan Harrison wrote:
> 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 hav
On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Bryan Harrison wrote:
> So… I understand that Cocoa is a given, but today's million dollar question
> is Objective-C or MacRuby? I'm a blank slate with regard to both and so
> could use some good advice. For example…
>
> What are the advantages of MacRuby over Ob
Greetings,
Hell, I spend most of my time in Java, and I find the objc verbosity to
be...uhhh...pretty familiar. ;)
Joking aside, I'll often take common ObjC patterns and 're-do' them the Ruby
way so they're more efficient to the way my brain works.
As an example from a recent bit of code, you hav
I'm not a MacRuby or ObjC expert, but here is my
understanding.
> What are the advantages of MacRuby over Objective-C?
MacRuby is a variant of Ruby, so it's an interpreted,
concise, dynamic language. Objective-C is a compiled
language based on C (with a lot of run-time support).
So, a MacRuby
On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Terry Moore wrote:
> it may just be a verbosity thing but once you get used to the Macruby style
> OBJC becomes tedious.
Hell, I spend most of my time in C++, and I find the ojbc verbosity to be
tedious ;-)
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Just a suggestion but I think having a goal will determine what you use.
MacRuby will still expose you to the Cocoa libraries so you will be able to
interchange with OBJC easily.
The MacRuby style tho gets my vote... e.g.
(OBJC) NSMutableDictionary* myDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];
