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

[stephen horne]

> Matt Aimonetti <mailto:mattaimonetti at gmail.com>
> 17/05/2013 13:30
> Is "require" supported in RubyMotion for OS X?
Good point, no it's not. This is something that I've never missed 
though. Would the benefit of "require" be the prevention of pollution of 
the global namespace? And, I suppose it would allow you to order your 
dependencies for compilation.
> What about Ruby gems?
Another good point, I haven't needed to use any Ruby gems yet in my 
Rubymotion stuff so I hadn't considered that.

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> Can one just compile his/her own MacRuby project using RubyMotion 
> without making any (major) changes?
>
> - Matt
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> stephen horne <mailto:fatste at gmail.com>
> 17/05/2013 13:26
> 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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