Hi guys, Yes, I'm still alive :) As you may have noticed, I have been absent here for a few months. Last year we got a baby, then we moved back to Europe. I decided to leave Apple a few months ago to achieve one of my dreams: work on a startup, in part so that I would be flexible in my time and be able to keep hacking on MacRuby.
Believe it or not, in the near future I should have less pressure on myself and therefore I should have the time to hack on MacRuby again. I will happily resume maintaining MacRuby, like I did for the last 5 years. MacRuby is quite stable right now so the maintenance burden is less significant than before. Also, during my absence, Watson did a great job of smashing all sorts of incoming bugs, if he keeps up he will likely become the #1 committer of the project :). Mark Rada spent a lot of time triaging bugs and writing patches. And Josh Ballanco kept the IRC channel in activity. It's like the project never slept. BTW, the 0.11 release actually does exist, you can find it on the GitHub page. The release notes are still missing, but I will take care of this (we need to automate the whole process). One thing that people are worried about is that the Objective-C GC is being deprecated in Mountain Lion. That's not a surprise given that the emphasis is on ARC now. As Apple generally (but not always) removes deprecated APIs in the next release cycle, MacRuby needs to be changed this year to not depend on the GC anymore. I have been experimenting with different alternate memory models for MacRuby on my spare time, and one of them seems to work well, modulo a few leaks. It's similar to ARC in design (but it has a different implementation). I have been working on a MacRuby app with friends using the new code, so far so good. I will merge my branch with GitHub as soon as it's stable, with a few other improvements. That should happen before Mountain Lion ships, so no worries, we should be fine. What can you do to help? Well, keep using MacRuby :) Report bugs. Write cool samples and submit them on GitHub. Write tutorials covering a feature of OSX that was challenging to program in MacRuby. For the more technically-inclined, you can check the tickets, try creating patches, etc. Laurent _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
