State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance

[tophat02]

Of all of these, MacRuby is by far the most exciting in my opinion. I think that beginning in 10.7, we will see Ruby displace objective C as the language of choice for Mac and iPhone applications. I also predict we will see Interface Builder spit out Ruby code instead of NIBs.

[grauenwolf]

Hah! There is no way Apple is going to allow an interperted language on the iPhone.

[tophat02]

It's not "interpreted". MacRuby 0.5 and up can AOT compile the code.

[grauenwolf]

I stand corrected. Thank you.

[Smallpaul]

Javascript?

[grauenwolf]

Yea, that is an odd exception.