Comments for Parveen Kaler

Comment on CrashKit: Helping Your iOS/iPhone Apps Suck Less by Parveen Kaler

Parveen Kaler — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:20:03 +0000

Nope, haven’t touched PhoneGap in a year or so. Maybe I should drop by one of the hack nights.

Comment on CrashKit: Helping Your iOS/iPhone Apps Suck Less by Dave Orchard

Dave Orchard — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:11:52 +0000

Looks awesome. Have you integrated with PhoneGap?

Comment on Could Ruby be Apple’s language and API Future? by Pete Nicholls

Pete Nicholls — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:36:46 +0000

The language in this post is misleading: “I believe Apple is preparing to transition to Ruby as their next default language.”

Apple aren’t making a “transition” to Ruby, but they are paving a way to better support it. It is, as you say in your comment, on track to become “a first-class citizen.” It will not be a replacement.

Onwards and upwards, though. I love Ruby (sorry, MikeFM).

Comment on Designing a Better iPhone Sign Up Screen by Mack

Mack — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:33:10 +0000

Great article Parveen.

Can think of a couple people I will be sharing this with right away.

Comment on Could Ruby be Apple’s language and API Future? by MikeFM

MikeFM — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:40:12 +0000

Why would anyone use such a kludge of a language as Ruby? I’d rather they use Python or, possibly better yet, develop their own new language with all the power of Objective-C but with modern features and a cleaner syntax. It’d obviously have to tie easily and tightly with code written in C/C++/Obj-C.

Comment on Could Ruby be Apple’s language and API Future? by Ian Alexander Wood

Ian Alexander Wood — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:01:00 +0000

You can already write Mac apps using Ruby with MacRuby, that’s what it’s for! Give it a go, it’s a lot of fun. The team working on it are top chaps as well. I would love to see it become the standard but who knows if this will transpire. One thing I would like to see is a resolution to the garbage collection issues on iOS which are currently a barrier to writing iPhone/iPad with MacRuby. It would be beyond awesome to be able to develop apps for desktop mobile and web all in the same language.

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Comment on Could Ruby be Apple’s language and API Future? by Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:03:04 +0000

MacRuby is an Apple sanctioned project, not some hobbyist project.

We don’t know their commitment to it, but it’s a closer connection than just “Apple uses LLVM and Ruby uses LLVM”, it’s more accurately “Apple is using LLVM to implement Ruby”, which is a much stronger statement.

Comment on Could Ruby be Apple’s language and API Future? by singer

singer — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:22:05 +0000

You guys forget that Apple has a Server platform, so MacRuby with Ruby on Rails would be a potent combination for Server development. Also with the MacRuby, the performance would be 1:1 with ObjC and a 1st class language along with ObjC.

It can be argued that MacRuby will allow you to more easily take advantage of blocks and GCD, with built in generational garbage collection without the verbosity of ObjC or the ambiguity the dot implementation of ObjC either for those that prefer dot notation.

Comment on Could Ruby be Apple’s language and API Future? by Garrus

Garrus — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:24:57 +0000

Just wanna point out that Dalvik has JIT since Android 2.2, it compiles into native code.