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by 10char 5089 days ago
Totally agree with that, but RubyMotion is more than just the Ruby language. There's no heavy IDE, no complex target/build setup, comes with a lightweight test environment, an interactive REPL...all that adds up to remove a lot of pain in the existing iOS workflow. You can definitely be proficient with the existing tools but I think RM is a lot better for newcomers.

There are some problems (debugging isn't great right now, memory bugs happen if you do tricky things), but it's only a few months old and I'm confident it'll get better over time.