Pim Snel
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Mon Jun 9 17:14:25 JST 2008
Perhaps a stupid question. But what's the difference between MacRuby and RubyCocoa? Regards, Pim Snel Op 7 jun 2008, om 02:48 heeft Laurent Sansonetti het volgende geschreven: > Hi, > > After 3 months of development, here comes the second release of > MacRuby, 0.2! Check it out while it's still hot! > > MacRuby is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac > OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and > garbage collector, and the CoreFoundation framework. While still a > work in progress, it is the goal of MacRuby to enable the creation of > full-fledged Mac OS X applications which do not sacrifice performance > in order to enjoy the benefits of using Ruby. > > You can learn more about MacRuby, and download a binary installer, > from the website: > > http://ruby.macosforge.org > > This is an important release, addressing many bugs, but also > re-implementing parts of the runtime using the CoreFoundation > framework. > > In MacRuby 0.2, all strings, arrays and hashes are now native Cocoa > types, respectively NSString, NSArray and NSDictionary objects. The > entire String, Array and Hash interface was rewritten on top of the > Cocoa equivalents, using the powerful CoreFoundation framework. The > previous implementation, inherited from MRI, is not used anymore. > > The rationale behind this change is simple. It is not necessary > anymore to convert Ruby primitive types to Cocoa, or vice-versa. For > example, a String created in MacRuby can be passed as is, without > conversion, to an underlying C or Objective-C API that expects an > NSString. And vice-versa, any method of the Ruby String class can be > performed on an NSString that comes from Objective-C. > > Enjoy, > > Laurent > > _______________________________________________ > Rubycocoa-devel mailing list > Rubyc****@lists***** > http://lists.sourceforge.jp/mailman/listinfo/rubycocoa-devel
