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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Snow Leopard'
Compiling Ruby with MacRuby 0.5b1
October 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby
Using Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 on Snow Leopard
September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Java, Mac
Since Apple removed Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 from Snow Leopard, it’s not possible to run software that requires older Java versions, or to develop against older Java versions.
In order to restore Java 1.4 and 1.5 to your Snow Leopard install, you’ll need to download the old Leopard versions and put them back where they [...]
Tags:Java·JRE·Mac·OS/X·Snow Leopard
Easy Guide to 64-bit Eclipse on the Mac
September 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Java, Mac
After upgrading to Snow Leopard I went looking for a 64-bit version of Eclipse. One of the main reasons to switch to 64-bit is so that all of your Java apps are sharing the same loaded JVM.
But when I went looking for 64-bit Eclipse I quickly ran into a brick wall. You can find 64-bit [...]
Tags:Eclipse·Java·JVM·Mac·Snow Leopard
Grand Central Dispatch
September 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
Here’s an overview of Apple’s new concurrent programming framework, complete with programming examples.
This is taken from the Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard. It’s that page of the review and the next page.
Long story short – they added blocks to C and Objective-C. A single line of code can wrap any section of [...]
