I am pleased to announce the first release of MacRuby, 0.1.

MacRuby is a version of Ruby that runs on top of Objective-C. More precisely, MacRuby is currently a port of the Ruby 1.9 implementation for the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector.

So far, since the project beginning was announced a few weeks ago, many bugs were fixed and features added. MacRuby is still at this point experimental, although if it’s also usable.

The purpose of this version is to release functional code, and also to let you test the new user experience. Please note that the project implementation will change deeply in the next releases.

You can learn more about the project on its homepage, and download a binary installer.

Enjoy!