On Apr 10, 2010, at 1:20 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > > Guys, this isn't the right place to discuss this, I'm afraid. I recommend > using an official channel such as the Apple Developer Relations. > > Thanks :-) > > Laurent
I understand and respect your perspective, but when a developer makes an investment in learning a tool -- particularly an evolving one with a ton of promise -- it doesn't seem off-topic to discuss its future. Especially when there is news that might affect its applicability to one of the more promising platforms it could target. Just my $.02 > On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:16 PM, steve ross wrote: > >> I don't know whether anyone will provide a rationale for the contract >> language, but here's an interesting analysis of it: >> >> http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331 >> >> Apple makes a lot of smart calls that seem stupid or selfish at first. A >> number of folks on Twitter have jumped on this contract language as a stupid >> and/or selfish call. I just don't know. >> >> Steve Ross >> >> >> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Matthew Winter wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I asked the same question via Twitter, however I do not expect to get an >>> answer at this stage. >>> >>> If my understanding is correct about why Apple has done this, in that it is >>> more due to "the need to support the new multitasking APIs in iPhone 4.0. >>> The system will now be evaluating apps as they run in order to implement >>> smart multitasking. It can't do this if apps are running within a runtime >>> or are cross compiled with a foreign structure that doesn't behave >>> identically to a native C/C++/Obj-C app." >>> >>> Then based on this, I see no reason why they should not let MacRuby be >>> blessed as this essentially is making use of the same Objective-C runtime >>> and API's. >>> >>> There are now quite a few ways to develop apps for the iPhone & iPad that >>> do not involve Obj-C. I wonder if it is just the case of recompiling the >>> base libraries or making the base libraries aware of Apple's multitasking >>> needs, and then for each to be blessed by Apple, or am I being way to >>> optimistic that this will happen. >>> >>> Regards >>> Matthew Winter >>> >>> >>> On 10/04/2010, at 11:37 AM, Rich Morin wrote: >>> >>>> I suspect that no Apple employee will be able to comment on >>>> this, but I _really_ hope MacRuby will be among the blessed >>>> languages for the iPad, etc. >>>> >>>> -r _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
