At first glance, I was skeptical of this. I was immediately thinking "jesus, wtf? yet another way people want to avoid Obj-C?". But last night I decided to take

At first glance, I was skeptical of this. I was immediately thinking "jesus, wtf? yet another way people want to avoid Obj-C?". But last night I decided to take the plunge, bought a license and played around with it. I dabbled in Obj-C over the years and jumped on the iOS dev bandwagon as soon as the first SDK was available. It was a long journey and coming from Ruby, I was very resistant. Once you're used to succinct syntax, it's really hard to use something as wordy as Obj-C (this was the main reason I never went back to Java). But over the years I came to appreciate Obj-C. I loved the speed and I clearly knew mobile was gonna be the next real fun thing to work on. And that's where I've been the past 4 years, iOS land. I'm pretty comfortable now with Obj-C and the iOS framework and have worked on a number of projects in the app store. I can really say that I've seen all levels of crappy to great code. But last night when I went thru the samples of the Ruby Motion stuff, I was a little flabbergasted. I'm (now) so used to XCode code completing long method names and when I saw the Ruby equivalent and how condensed everything was, it kinda blew my mind again. I found myself thinking "whoa, that's right, there's no interfaces" when looking at the accessors (omg, so much less code vs. using typical ivar properties) and just all these little Rubyisms that I'm not used to seeing with iOS. It totally made me smile. Oh yah and blocks! They're, like, readable again. :) Anyway, just to play around with the examples (which are pretty decent) was worth the intro price for me (I can expense it anyway). One big thing that does not yet exist is IB support. A few years back I switched to IB 100% (when possible) and so I'd much rather lay out my ui vs. code it all up. I've included a good Ars link below and in it Sansonetti says they're coming out with a DSL for easily laying out the ui. That will be interesting and it could push me over the edge for using this on a real project. Time will tell. I kinda feel like I felt the first time I saw Rails. I would recommend anyone remotely interested just check out the Github demos. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/exclusive-building-ruby-ios-applications-with-rubymotion.ars http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/exclusive-build...