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pieter on Oct 8, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 Released

I don't see any reason to assume this will show up on the iPhone. Apple has a very strict policy about interpreters running on their platform, why would they suddenly change that?

(You might still be able to AOT your macruby program and ship the binary on the iPhone)

tumult on Oct 8, 2009 | [–]

You can run interpreters on iPhone. You just can't allow the user to load code in externally to be interpreted.

And you can build binaries with MacRuby anyway.

ZeroGravitas on Oct 8, 2009 | [–]

The AOT compilation in MacRuby relies on the ObjC 2.0 GC, that's why you can't use it right now to create iPhone apps.

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