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Re:Go and Swift take another step up the programming languag... by adamnemecek on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:54PM (#8702224)
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "compiled Ruby". AFAIK at no point is RubyCocoa, MacRuby or RubyMotion compiled, it's still an interpreter with the Cocoa APIs exposed to Ruby.

> I just wonder if some of this explosion of languages that is happening right now isn't harmful in the long run.

I'm not sure how that would happen. I'm also guessing that someone said something similar back when say COBOL was THE programming language.

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Re:Go and Swift take another step up the programming languag... by mcphage on Thursday December 04, 2014 @07:00PM (#8702434)
> I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "compiled Ruby". AFAIK at no point is RubyCocoa, MacRuby or RubyMotion compiled, it's still an interpreter with the Cocoa APIs exposed to Ruby.

MacRuby and RubyMotion are absolutely compiled.

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Re:Go and Swift take another step up the programming languag... by adamnemecek on Thursday December 04, 2014 @07:04PM (#8702451)
Seems like you are right. TIL I guess.
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