<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And it is a very cool language!<div><br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Mike wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Also, unlike other interpreted languages, MacRuby can be compiled to a standalone executable binary ready for deployment. "This improves the startup time while making sure the original Ruby source code is not readable"<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:05 AM, John James wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Jeremy,</div>FYI: MacRuby ( supported by Apple)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; "> is an "implementation of Ruby 1.9</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; "> directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks." (unlike RubyCocoa which uses a bridge). It still may not work as a plug-in but it is closer than you might think. <<a href="http://www.macruby.org/">http://www.macruby.org</a>></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">John - k1ym</span></font></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>