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

[Mark Villacampa]

I think all these limitations that Rubymotion for OSX has right now are due to the fact that it is a direct port of the iOS version (which has those limitations because of the way iOS works and AppStore policies). In the future, Rubymotion for OSX will evolve and probably look more like Macruby.

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On 17/05/2013, at 14:52, stephen horne <fatste at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, and "load()" isn't supported either. That's a shame because it means MacRubyReload by Jean-Denis Muys won't work. I had a nifty version of that that reloaded your source files as you save them too =[
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>> <compose-unknown-contact.jpg>	david kramf	17/05/2013 13:19
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>> Is RubyMotion  a full Ruby. Does it support reflection and metaprograming?
>> Thanks, David Kramf
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>> <postbox-contact.jpg>	Francis Chong	17/05/2013 12:15
>> While I'm really happy about OS X support on RubyMotion, it is not a replacement for MacRuby. 
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>> IMHO MacRuby is far superior:
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>> It offer JIT compiler, you develop orders of magnitude faster as you dont need clean and rebuild every time.
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>> You have full ruby compatibility, load standard library as you wish.
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>> It loads gems and framework dynamically like what you would expected from regular ruby. 
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>> You don't have to write new gems, or rewrite them. Many gems just work, even native ones could work.
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>> You can use regular technique for meta programming, and generally you don't enter a uncanny valley between dynamic language and static build system.
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>> Some of these limitations are inherited from RubyMotion due to iOS restriction, I don't see them going away anytime soon. 
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>> 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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