MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 is out and can be downloaded from here. The beta can only be used on Snow Leopard, which means its Intel-only. They switched from using YARV as the internal engine to using LLVM. The major side effect of this change is that Ruby code can now be compiled.
Compilation is still pretty [...]
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Compiling Ruby with MacRuby 0.5b1
October 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby
MacRuby 0.4
March 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby
There’s one problem with this. Ruby’s interpreter and run-time have always been slow and single-threaded. For many reasons, the baroque language itself included, it has been difficult to create a fast interpreter. This hasn’t stopped Ruby from being useful. The incredible Rails framework runs on top of Ruby and is scalable. But that effort showed [...]
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