RubyMotion - the good, the bad and the ugly.

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1. RubyMotion

2. Hi, I am Steve Ringo steven@dynamicclarity.com @stevenringo

3. ” “RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS. It lets

   you quickly develop and test native iOS applications for iPhone or iPad, all using the awesome Ruby language you know and love.

4. The good

5. Awesome ruby syntax

6. REPL / IRB

7. MacRuby under the hood

8. No Xcode!

9. None
10. None
11. None

12. Memory Management

13. Excitement

14. Ecosystem

15. Web dev-like experience

16. The Bad

17. Impedance mismatch

18. Proprietary & expensive*

19. No Xcode

20. Not compatible with rubygems

21. The ugly

22. Haters gonna hate

23. What’s the point? Objective-C is easy to learn! Only good

    for toy apps Still need to know the Cocoa APIs API is so huge, need IDE

24. The verdict

25. Will grow the ecosystem

26. Ruby has a testing culture

27. Truly native

28. Are a lot of non-Cocoa development environments on iOS

29. Will I use it for my next iOS project?

30. Hell yeah!