Learn MacRuby or Objective-C?

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Published on 2010-05-02T07:04:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 7:07 UTC
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Well, my fisrt question was a bit too general so i ll try again and hope this one is better.
The way i see it is:
Ruby->MacRuby or IronRuby or Rails
Obj-c->Mac Development

So Ruby has clearly more potential in desktop and web platforms and now with MacRuby, OSX native (and commercial) apps are on the way. If i get it wrong please correct me.

For me that i will do a fresh start should i go with the modern Ruby or start learning c+obj-c?
Will a newcomer benefit much (in learning & coding time, frustration, complexity) by learning/using macruby for osx apps rather objective-c? Or its pretty much the same?
I hope some day to hang around here and help others.

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