MacRuby on iOS - confirmed? (Or not.)
iOS 5 will have garbage collection, so it’s now looking increasingly likely that MacRuby/iOS apps will be possible
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Nope.
crying
Yeah, turns out garbage collection is a much more complex topic than I had recalled. Sounds like ARC isn’t really extremely suitable to what a ruby app would want nor is it what the MacRuby JIT uses on OS X
It’d be nice if someone who understand how all these pieces of Cocoa/LLVM/iOS/MacRuby fit together could explain what’s still missing exactly, or whether the MacRuby AOT compiler could in theory be adapted to using the iOS5/ARC for auto retain/release
The discussion on HN is pretty fascinating, BTW
No, no GC.
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