Allison Newman wrote:
I can't for the life of me imagine why you would think that. I
mean, I'm not theorising here, I have actually done it. My very
first Cocoa app was a RubyCocoa app, and my second, a true, full-
featured app, is just about done. And you know what, I never did
regret my decision to not really learn Objective C.
FWIW, all my Cocoa apps are in PyObjC and that's how I started out
too: I already knew Python and a bit of C, so picked up just enough
ObjC to be able to read Hillegass and the Apple documentation and
examples, and got stuck in. Slightly more hassle to use Cocoa from
Python than ObjC since there is a degree of impedance mismatch between
the two, plus you have to mentally translate Cocoa API docs to Python
syntax. OTOH, Python's a quicker and easier language to work in than C
(which Cocoa ameliorates but does not escape), plus you get scads of
Python libraries to draw on as well. So I think it about balances out
in the end.
As for Ruby and RubyCocoa, the Prags have just released a PDF beta of
Brian Marick's new RubyCocoa book:
http://pragprog.com/titles/bmrc/rubycocoa
I've not checked it out myself yet, but maybe some of the Cocoa/Ruby
folks here will be interested in taking a look, whether for their own
education or to provide corrections and suggestions for improvement.
And don't forget MacRuby either, an extremely promising project by
Laurent Sansonetti (the Apple engineer behind Leopard's Ruby support)
which aims to make Ruby a full peer to ObjC for Cocoa development. The
0.2 release has just been announced:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/155593
HTH
has
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