I think the potential of something like RubyMotion is that it facilitates very high-level abstraction so that building application with very common themes - lik

I think the potential of something like RubyMotion is that it facilitates very high-level abstraction so that building application with very common themes - like an app showing only a list/detail view - could be done in less than 10 lines of code. Think jQuery vs manual DOM manipulation instead of CoffeeScript vs JavaScript. These days I don't really know how to manually manipulate DOM or read document on getElementById. Similar, you could imagine a new group of iOS programmers not reading official Cocoa documentation and instead rely on a higher level abstraction totally built on top of RubyMotion. For that to happen, RubyMotion needs to grow its own ecosystem instead of relying on people from Objective-C wanting to save some keystrokes.