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Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster
An anonymous reader writes "Zen and the Art of Programming published an article about MacRuby's new experimental 0.5 branch (project blog entry here). According to the included benchmarks, Apple's version of Ruby could already, at this early stage of its development, be about three times as fast as the fastest Ruby implementation available elsewhere."
My wife's 17" macbook is now my dev machine! She can surf on my old XP box that takes a half hour to boot. All I have to do now is learn Ruby.
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Apple should be enormously grateful to the LLVM project. They must've been shitting their pants about having their entire O/S dependant on a GNU project.
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The least used scripting language on the least used platform. Yes indeed, that matters - not.
A lot of Mac users are fags too.
You can write in Scala, it's very nice. Although, I'd like to see better support for its type system in the JVM.
It's the unofficial 'next Java' for JVM.
PS: Do you want me to punch you in face? You see, C++ is one of my favorite languages :)
Who cares? Ruby should just die.
Just let me know when Objective C succeeds in replacing anything else, first.
Now go play in your closed source world and leave the grownups alone
Grownups need to make a living, sunshine. Very few people can get a MacArthur grant and extend their adolescence indefinitely.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."