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by jonhohle 811 days ago
The difference was MacRuby was built on top of the Objective-C runtime. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacRuby
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There was a brief window when it was possible to do some really cool stuff with MacRuby, such as inspecting and even monkey patching core OS X classes. Probably one major reason why Apple killed the project in the first place. Being able to interact with the operating system on a low level through macirb was an absolutely mind blowing experience.

Sadly, those days are long gone, and I just don’t think Swift brings the same kind of flexibility or joy that MacRuby did.