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This seems wild. Ruby and Swift couldn't be any further from each other. I struggle to believe that Apple ever seriously believed that Ruby was their ideal lang

This seems wild. Ruby and Swift couldn't be any further from each other. I struggle to believe that Apple ever seriously believed that Ruby was their ideal language for app development on their platforms.

zoky 3y ago
That’s what MacRuby was. There was a time when you could develop native, compiled Mac applications using Ruby as a first-class language. For a while, MacRuby was looking to be the lightweight alternative to Objective-C. Unfortunately, the project was killed around the same time Apple released and started promoting Swift. I don’t know that there was any definite reason given (not that there ever is) but my understanding at the time was that Apple wanted a language developed in-house rather than adopting something developed somewhere else.