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No. You can't build iOS apps with it, but you can build OS X apps — even for the App Store. The main problem in my understanding is the lack of garbage collect
by zefhous 15y ago
No. You can't build iOS apps with it, but you can build OS X apps — even for the App Store.
The main problem in my understanding is the lack of garbage collection on iOS. Someone mentioned that iOS 5 enabled GC, but I think maybe they are referring to ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), which isn't GC even though it solves the same problem.
- chc 15y agoYeah, I remember way back when, lrz proposed implementing something very similar to ARC for MacRuby to make it work on the iPhone, and I'm pretty sure somebody actually implemented a proof-of-concept, but I didn't think it went anywhere. I would have been pleased to find out I'd just missed it, though.