[txmt-dev] Re: MacRuby

[Allan Odgaard]

On Sep 25, 2012, at 12:06 AM, Elia Schito <elia at schito.me> wrote:

> I tried to add the MacRuby framework to TM2, but I found that ARC and GC are not friends…
> 
> I got something done removing all arc related settings from target files and reached this: […] the code is up here, I wonder if there's a way to make the work together and let us conquer the world writing TM plugins in MacRuby… (highlights: the macruby glue, arc stuff removal, the contents of the plugin loader)

It appears MacRuby is using Apple’s garbage collector. This is sort of all or nothing, but you can’t just enable GC for TextMate and expect things to work.

It would appear that moving MacRuby away from GC is high priority: https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby/issues/136