I wonder if we couldn't kickstarter a fund to let apple hire someone full time to do macruby work?
Anyone @ the mothership know if that'd be well received? -Kevin On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Dominic Dagradi wrote: > Ha. I like that. It should be fun. > > MacRuby is fun. MacRuby is also not yet perfect. Whatever politics are > happening inside Apple, we're not privy to them. I don't think anyone at > Apple "hates" it, given that they've fixed major bugs relatively recently. > > Don't consider it a waste of time. You will need to learn to work with the > Cocoa API no matter what to develop for Mac or iOS, and that is a huge part > of the learning curve. Choose your tools based on what suits you. > On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Benjamin Almeida wrote: > >> if you don't have fun, you are doing it wrong. >> >> >> On 20 Dec 2011, at 17:06, Dan Farrand <d...@greenrivercomputing.com> wrote: >> >>> I would like to probe sentiment around the future for MacRuby ? is there a >>> future ? I am drawn to it - I like Ruby as a language and development >>> approach. I appreciate the entrance it provides into Cocoa without having >>> to sign up for Objective-C. But where does it fit within Apple's longer >>> term view ? Is MacRuby about to be Orphaned ? It seems like something >>> happened around march 2011. What are the groups within Apple that hate >>> MacRuby and want to kill it as a threat to Objective-C ? I am loath to >>> invest a lot of time and coding in something that is a dead-end. Would love >>> to hear insights from anyone with better insight. >>> >>> >>> Dan Farrand >>> 1-307-367-2276 >>> >>> This message is intended only for the person or company to which it is >>> addressed and is considered to be confidential unless otherwise identified >>> as not being confidential. Please prohibit any dissemination of this >>> information by or to persons or entities other than the intended recipient. >>> If you received this in error, please contact the sender. Green River >>> Computing Services is a Wyoming corporation. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacRuby-devel mailing list >>> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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