[MacRuby-devel] Extending MacRuby to platforms other than OSX?

[Adam Strzelecki]

Hi,

First of all I think MacRuby is amazing project, and one and only Ruby runtime/compiler (macrubyc) that is able to produce standalone self-contained binaries. Since I have used Ruby heavily to produce server-side applications rather than Cocoa based application and I am iPhone developer as well, I wish to ask if and what are the plans for extending MacRuby to other platforms like:

(1) iOS - here I know the basic problem is lack of Obj-C GC. I've seen some post you're working on it, any clues about that?

(2) any UNIX (POSIX) platforms (Linux servers) - most of tech MacRuby relays on is OpenSource including LLVM, Obj-C runtime... most except Foundation framework is closed-source and exists only on OSX, however there's CFLite and there were couple of tries to port Foundation to generic UNIX (POSIX), one of them is PureFoundation.

Do you guys considered stripped down MacRuby version for any POSIX OS where Array, String and some core classes use some alternative implementation of Foundation or Foundation-free implementation?

Regards,
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