Mac OS X Ruby/Objective-C Bridge Updated

phyxeld writes "RubyCocoa 0.4.0 is out. From the sf.net page: 'RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming in the Object-Oriented Scripting Language Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows creating and using a Cocoa object in a Ruby script. In Cocoa application, mixture of program written by both Ruby and Objective-C is possible.' It's always nice to see more GPL software in the Mac OS X world."

Comments

speaking of Japan and Ruby

[josephgrossberg]

The fact Ruby is popular over there seems to be an oft-quoted tidbit.

How common is this? Do programming languages vary that much in popularity from region to region? (O'Reilly's Ruby book came out in Japan two years before the English-language Ruby in a Nutshell.)

If so, why do you think that's the case? That influential programmers/managers give a particular language the nod early on? That documentation is published early in a particular language? That (OK, this is stretching it) Japanese syntax shares commonalities with Ruby?