[MacRuby-devel] Hotcocoa or not?

[Thibault Martin-Lagardette]

Hi Buddy,

I would advise to use the "regular" way, aka using Xcode, Interface Builder etc.
I could think of two reasons for that:
1/ HotCocoa is, as far as I know, not maintained anymore
2/ By using Interface Builder, you'll learn more about writing Cocoa apps, wether it is in MacRuby or Objective-C :-)

However, please be aware that as of today, it is not possible to submit, on the AppStore (the iOS AppStore), an application that has been written using MacRuby :-(.
Sincerely,
-- 
Thibault Martin-Lagardette



On Jan 1, 2011, at 05:09, Buddy Lindsey, Jr. wrote:

> All,
> 
> I am just starting with MacRuby and am kind of confused. There seems to be 2 ways to do GUI development. Hotcocoa or Pure Cocoa API. My confusion is on which one is best I like hotcocoa because it seems fairly straight forward on doing GUI stuff, the little I have looked at it, but seems to rely on Cocoa API where there aren't any mappings. However, I can use interface builder and xcode more easily going with the pure cocoa api. I also am very confused when doing anything with interface builder so I am leaning toward hotcocoa.
> 
> As a note on my background. I just got my first mac in July and started doing anything with ruby [on rails] in August. I come from a web development background so desktop apps are a bit new to me.
> 
> Anyone have any advice, comments, and or words of wisdom all they way around? My goals is to make a fairly simple app I can put into the AppStore.
> 
> Thanks
> Buddy
> 
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