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It's not a real review — it's a guy having fun with a new toy, which is nice. I'm still not more informed about the real advantages or disadvantage of this solu
by Arcanum-XIII 14y ago
It's not a real review — it's a guy having fun with a new toy, which is nice. I'm still not more informed about the real advantages or disadvantage of this solution, nor its speed... But to be honest, this soon, I wasn't expecting much.
Still, as other, I'm perplexed with the difference. It all seem to boil down to syntax (and I must confess I like the objective C one, it being my second language after C) — and syntax is not that important, it's the concept behind. XCode is not a good IDE, but not that bad for its purpose. Is there an equivalent for Ruby, especially to debug the app ?
Alternative is good, but it need to add something to be really differentiated. I'm not sure using ruby syntax is enought...
- Argorak 14y agoThe differentiator is the console-based development flow and the REPL, which is not an afterthought but a prime feature. The REPL is basically your debugger. Also, while the Ruby stdlib is not running on rubymotion, I see a chance for sharing Code between rubymotion/ruboto environments (ruboto is Jruby for Android).
- Arcanum-XIII 14y agoDoes the REPL work on the live application ? Otherwise I'm not sure it's that usefull — but I'm more of compiler/breakpoint guy at the moment so feel free to prove me wrong ! -- EDIT -- Ok, I've read the review from ArsTechnica, and yes you can do that. Now I'm curious to try it !
- jeremymcanally 14y agoYup it does. There's a screencast on the Pragmatic Bookshelf site that shows it off. You can change things live in the app (e.g., label text, state, whatever). It's incredibly cool.
- smartgoat 14y agoBut you can already do that in gdb and lldb.