Symbian Releases Ruby App Dev Kit for Handhelds
Symbian, which already supports Java, C++, Python, Flash Lite, Silverlight, and .NET among others, now adds Ruby, with an app dev kit designed to broaden support among developers.
LONDON — Symbian has announced the release of Ruby for the Symbian OS, enabling developers to use the Ruby language to create applications for Symbian-based handsets and devices.
At the Symbian Smartphone Show here, Symbian announced that Symbian Research and Pragmaticomm have collaborated to provide the availability of Ruby v1.9 for Symbian OS. And Symbian is releasing Ruby for Symbian OS to the open source software developer community.
According to the notes accompanying the release, Symbian officials said:
"Ruby is a powerful dynamic language that reaches the heights of the pure Object Oriented Programming paradigm and gives a wealth of language features like exceptions, blocks, closures, regular expressions, collections, meta-classing and much more. Ruby is enjoying a growing popularity in different developer communities."
