MacRuby 0.5 Beta 2: AOT Compilation, Rack & Sinatra Support, And...

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Wed, 11/18/2009 - 09:00

macruby05.png MacRuby , a port of Ruby 1.9 to the Mac OS X Objective C common runtime, is today one step closer to a production-ready Ruby implementation with the release of beta 2 of MacRuby 0.5 .

MacRuby 0.5 has been highly anticipated since it was first mentioned back in March because it promises significant performance improvements, a new LLVM based virtual machine (replacing YARV), and significant compatibility improvements and bug fixes.

Even still at this beta stage, 0.5...

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