[MacRuby-devel] Fwd: OS X10.9 & MacRuby's future...

[stephen horne]

 From what I understand, the only thing missing in Rubymotion is eval()

There's an article by Clay Allsop about meta-programming in Rubymotion 
at http://clayallsopp.com/posts/rubymotion-metaprogramming/

I tested to see if eval() works in desktop Rubymotion apps (I read 
somewhere that the reason it's not included is due to Apple restrictions 
on run-time code evaluation in iOS, rather than a limit of Rubymotion), 
but it doesn't.

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> david kramf <mailto:dakr.012 at gmail.com>
> 17/05/2013 13:19
>
> Is RubyMotion  a full Ruby. Does it support reflection and metaprograming?
> Thanks, David Kramf
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> Francis Chong <mailto:francis at ignition.hk>
> 17/05/2013 12:15
> While I'm really happy about OS X support on RubyMotion, it is not a 
> replacement for MacRuby.
>
> IMHO MacRuby is far superior:
>
> It offer JIT compiler, you develop orders of magnitude faster as you 
> dont need clean and rebuild every time.
>
> You have full ruby compatibility, load standard library as you wish.
>
> It loads gems and framework dynamically like what you would expected 
> from regular ruby.
>
> You don't have to write new gems, or rewrite them. Many gems just 
> work, even native ones could work.
>
> You can use regular technique for meta programming, and generally you 
> don't enter a uncanny valley between dynamic language and static build 
> system.
>
> Some of these limitations are inherited from RubyMotion due to iOS 
> restriction, I don't see them going away anytime soon.
>
> That said, RubyMotion team is the ones who know most of MacRuby, and 
>  their direction is not like MacRuby in past. If you are going to 
> develop Mac app, your best choice is probably go RubyMotion, or just 
> use Objective-C.
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