[MacRuby-devel] Tyro Needs Ruby vs. O-C Advice

[Terry Moore]

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]; 

(MacRuby)   mydict = {}

it may just be a verbosity thing but once you get used to the Macruby style OBJC becomes tedious.

heres hoping with multiple cores etc that a garbage collector can be added to IOS! which I think is the only reason MacRuby would not work with it.

Terry


On 31/03/2011, at 4:43 PM, 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 have trifled with any number of languages from C to AppleScript, but am not fluent in any object oriented language.  I've been exploring Xcode 4 for a week and feel conversant with the IDE if not yet able to accomplish anything with it.
> 
> 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 Objective-C?
> 
> What are the advantage of O-C over Ruby?
> 
> Is Xcode's support for O-C significantly better than it's handling of Ruby?  Do I care?
> 
> At this point I'm primarily interested in OS X development, but iOS clearly needs to run a close second.  What's the current status of Ruby development for iOS and is it likely to go anywhere in the nearish future?
> 
> Any thoughts on the longer-term prospects of either language?
> 
> Any thoughts from anybody will be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
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