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Grand Central Dispatch is included! And with a super clean and simple api (see the code snippet on the blog post). Laurent (the lead developer of the project)
by nestlequ1k 17y ago
Grand Central Dispatch is included! And with a super clean and simple api (see the code snippet on the blog post).
Laurent (the lead developer of the project) is a friggin genious. 0.5 is definitely the first step to MacRuby catching on in a big way.
If this doesnt come to the iphone in the next year or so, I'm going to be extremely disappointed. All thats needed is the ObjC 2.0 garbage collector, which Apple has on their roadmap. And yes, it'll be optional for non macruby iphone apps (like it is for Mac desktop apps currently)
- pieter 17y agoI don't see any reason to assume this will show up on the iPhone. Apple has a very strict policy about interpreters running on their platform, why would they suddenly change that? (You might still be able to AOT your macruby program and ship the binary on the iPhone)
- tumult 17y agoYou can run interpreters on iPhone. You just can't allow the user to load code in externally to be interpreted. And you can build binaries with MacRuby anyway.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoThe AOT compilation in MacRuby relies on the ObjC 2.0 GC, that's why you can't use it right now to create iPhone apps.