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MacRuby is not on the iPhone because there is no garbage collected Objective-C runtime on the iPhone, NOT because it is banned.
by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
MacRuby is not on the iPhone because there is no garbage collected Objective-C runtime on the iPhone, NOT because it is banned.
- chc 16y agoNot so. The MacRuby team had already thought up a number of ideas for working around the lack of a garbage collected runtime (the most promising was similar to the direction Apple's going with Objective-C, where retain and release happen automatically based on policies). They never got implemented because Apple instituted the ban on programming languages right around the same time.