MacRuby 0.9 is released

steve19 wrote: post #5

koudelka wrote: post #2

I hope MacRuby finds its way into Lion. I used it a few revisions ago and it was quite solid.

I doubt it will be included. It does not need to be included. You can build a self contained .app using macruby_deploy.

There's been persistent rumors that MacRuby will replace Objective-C as the Blessed Holy Language of Apple.

Re: MacRuby 0.9 is released

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Post by sigzero » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 11:17 PM UTC

steveklabnik wrote: post #6

steve19 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt it will be included. It does not need to be included. You can build a self contained .app using macruby_deploy.

There's been persistent rumors that MacRuby will replace Objective-C as the Blessed Holy Language of Apple.

I do not see those rumors coming to fruition at all. Apple has way too much invested in ObjC at this point to be supplanted by Ruby. That's just my opinion though.

Re: MacRuby 0.9 is released

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Post by acl » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 11:18 PM UTC

steve19 wrote: post #5

koudelka wrote: post #2

I hope MacRuby finds its way into Lion. I used it a few revisions ago and it was quite solid.

I doubt it will be included. It does not need to be included. You can build a self contained .app using macruby_deploy.

Bundling the framework makes the .app pretty huge. My simple app with embedded MacRuby and a few embedded gems weighs in at 54MB.

It would be awesome to have Macruby already present on users' machines.

Re: MacRuby 0.9 is released

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Post by steveklabnik » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 11:21 PM UTC

sigzero wrote: post #7

steveklabnik wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's been persistent rumors that MacRuby will replace Objective-C as the Blessed Holy Language of Apple.

I do not see those rumors coming to fruition at all. Apple has way too much invested in ObjC at this point to be supplanted by Ruby. That's just my opinion though.

They're based in a few things:

1) MacRuby supports LLVM.

2) Apple has a dev on the MacRuby project.

3) MacRuby's Cocoa bindings are pretty fantastic, it's not unimaginable that they could be replaced with just MacRuby.

4) Ruby and Apple are already a cultural fit.

That said, I'd be a bit of a surprise. Doesn't mean it'll never happen, though.

Re: MacRuby 0.9 is released

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Post by travisjeffery » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 11:35 PM UTC

steveklabnik wrote: post #6

steve19 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt it will be included. It does not need to be included. You can build a self contained .app using macruby_deploy.

There's been persistent rumors that MacRuby will replace Objective-C as the Blessed Holy Language of Apple.

Haha, that's ridiculous. I've never heard such rumors but if I had they would be up there with 2Pac releasing a new album.