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

[Louis-Philippe]

An other Objective-C Runtime language, Nu, is already iOS and Linux
compatible, but doesn't rely on Objective-C GC...
nothing is impossible and this one is certainly worth it.

2011/1/25 Gary Weaver <gary.weaver at duke.edu>

> Not trying to be a downer, because I really like the idea of it being more
> accessible, but:
>
> Looks like no recent activity on PureFoundation:
> https://code.google.com/p/purefoundation/
> http://www.puredarwin.org/purefoundation
>
> Some activity 3 months ago on opencflite, which there was claim that
> PureFoundation might move to:
> http://opencflite.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opencflite/
>
> I don't get the feeling that these projects are active enough and have
> enough behind them to get distracted from focusing on OS X, but maybe their
> developers are just not committing code frequently?
>
> MacRuby on iOS would be neat, but from what I've read on the list, it isn't
> happening anytime soon.
>
> Personally, I'm still hoping that someone picks up HotCocoa, but from what
> I hear, the guys need to stayed focus on OS X, until more developers start
> helping out.
>
> I noticed a few projects for Posix and Ruby and CFLite and Ruby, if you
> google for it. Might not be what people need, but worth mentioning.
>
>
>
> On 1/25/11 12:05 PM, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>
>> 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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