RubyMotion is Ruby, which is normally succinct, short, and sweet. The iOS APIs stick out like sore thumbs amongst what is normal Ruby code: camelCase usage is pervasive and reallyFreakingLongParameterNames can’t be tuned out.
When I first read the above paragraph, I was afraid this was going to be a case of someone using a great tool to enable willful ignorance, but:
> So far, I’ve ended up with staying in Objective-C style. All of the API calls you make into the various iOS frameworks need to be in that style, and seeing the different opinions of variable and method naming clashing ended up hurting my head.
I commend the author for being perceptive and pragmatic. There is also a reason why things are the way they are in iOS and Cocoa. Long Intention Revealing names document what's going on, and reduce the incidence of unwanted name collisions. It has a heritage from Smalltalk, so it's been around and developing for something like 40 years! That puts it in the same league as Lisp as a way of doing things with merit that stands the test of time.
RubyMotion is Ruby, which is normally succinct, short, and sweet. The iOS APIs stick out like sore thumbs amongst what is normal Ruby code: camelCase usage is pervasive and reallyFreakingLongParameterNames can’t be tuned out.
When I first read the above paragraph, I was afraid this was going to be a case of someone using a great tool to enable willful ignorance, but:
> So far, I’ve ended up with staying in Objective-C style. All of the API calls you make into the various iOS frameworks need to be in that style, and seeing the different opinions of variable and method naming clashing ended up hurting my head.
I commend the author for being perceptive and pragmatic. There is also a reason why things are the way they are in iOS and Cocoa. Long Intention Revealing names document what's going on, and reduce the incidence of unwanted name collisions. It has a heritage from Smalltalk, so it's been around and developing for something like 40 years! That puts it in the same league as Lisp as a way of doing things with merit that stands the test of time.