What advantages does MacRuby offer over MRI/YARV or Rubinius?

patrickaljord · on March 7, 2011

ObjC binding I think and things like that HotCocoa

http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/HotCocoa

http://www.slideshare.net/reborg/writing-apps-with-hotcocoa-...

mattetti · on March 7, 2011

MacRuby allows you to write native Cocoa apps and call C/Objective-C directly without a bridge. Basically, it's an Objective-C replacement using the same runtime but a different language.

Argorak · on March 7, 2011

Basically, MacRuby is an MRI fork with the object system replaced by the one present in Objective-C (which is pretty similar). Integration is its main strength.

tedunangst · on March 7, 2011

It's fast. Slightly faster than rubinius to run and lots faster to start.

chadcf · on March 7, 2011

I haven't found much other than cocoa support. Which I can't get too excited about, a simple macruby app that does nothing but open up one window takes nearly 30 seconds to launch on my Core i5 macbook pro...

cubicle67 · on March 7, 2011

I'm using a 5 year old iMac here (running 10.6) and it's close to instant. no discernible delay over opening any other app.

Legion · on March 8, 2011

Sounds like a problem with your machine. That is obviously not typical.