Since the Mac is basically a Unix with a very pretty interface, Ruby
runs very well. I know for a fact that you can get mysql-ruby running
(with some work-arounds ruby-talk:44685) and the openGL ruby library.
There are also Cocoa libraries for ruby, Cocoa being the windowing API
for Mac OS X.
I don’t know about tcl. You may need to install X Windows (another easy
install) but I don’t know. Anyone with more knowledge want to jump in?
The work-arounds I mention above usually have to do with the Mac’s
"strange" directory structure. More and more open source projects are
building support for this into their projects (mysql,X Windows) so it’s
becoming less of a problem. Plus more and more of these projects are
releasing binaries for the Mac, so owning a Mac is becoming easier than
ever for the Unix user.
I’d have to say that using X11 is the way to go right now. It’s pretty easy
to get tk/tcl working with Fink.
Cocoa Tk/Tcl is an alpha branch last I checked that won’t even build w/o
resorting to Jam. Then you need a bunch of symlinks from where Ruby expects
to find the Tk/Tcl stuff into /System/Library/Frameworks.
Maybe Jaguar will fix this. If not, I’ll build a one-click installer but it
won’t be real soon. I’ve got too much other Ruby stuff to do first.
Since the Mac is basically a Unix with a very pretty interface, Ruby
runs very well. I know for a fact that you can get mysql-ruby running
(with some work-arounds ruby-talk:44685) and the openGL ruby library.
There are also Cocoa libraries for ruby, Cocoa being the windowing API
for Mac OS X.
I don’t know about tcl. You may need to install X Windows (another easy
install) but I don’t know. Anyone with more knowledge want to jump in?
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