Mac OS X Leopard and Ruby

[C. Lung]

Has anyone seen this yet from Apple:

"To open up the benefits of the Cocoa frameworks to a wider developer
audience, Leopard embraces two other highly dynamic languages for use in
building Cocoa applications: Ruby and Python. These two languages are an
excellent fit for integrating with the Cocoa frameworks, and they both
have high quality bridges to Objective-C. These bridges allow you to mix
and match Objective-C, Ruby, and Python, allowing you to choose the best
tool for the job at hand while using high level Cocoa features such as
Key-Value Coding (KVC) and Key-Value Observing (KVO)."
http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/apptech.html

Sounds really interesting, anyone know anything more about this?

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Sounds really interesting, anyone know anything more about this?

Well, one of the talks at RubyConf this year was from the Apple
employee working on Ruby integration. It's true that Apple seems to
be stepping up support.

Leopard will ship with Ruby (built as a framework it seems) and some
add ons (Rails, libxml, and ruby/osa are some I believe). There was
also a lot of talk about RubyCocoa, as you just quoted, yes.

James Edward Gray II