Add me in as another questioner of MacRuby's future. (And thanks for bringing this up -- I'd been meaning to do so myself.)
The GC issue is the most obvious, but I've also noticed a distinct lack of updates and general involvement by any of the maintainers. Looking at the already-sparse mailing list archives of the last few months, there's many more questions than answers. In the source repo, there are several pull requests and many open issues. And while there was some talk about doing a 0.13 release, that seems to have stalled. And I don't see any active branches that might have any GC/ARC changes. A couple of weeks ago, I spent hours figuring out some Bridgesupport/Pointer issues, and after that experience had pretty much decided to write off MacRuby because it didn't seem like a place to put a lot of time & energy. At the moment, paying a bit of cash to get RubyMotion seems like a better idea. But I'd love to be proven wrong. Best, --John On 16 May 2013, at 10:40 AM, Michael Shantzis <mich...@shantzis.com> wrote: > Hello all (and especially Carolyn), > > I just want to say that I have the same question, specifically regarding the > GC/ARC issue. > > The context in which this came up was very revealing. I had been developing a > fairly complex Cocoa project (ARC enabled) and decided that I had to add some > tests. > Using MacRuby seemed like the natural solution. I quickly noticed, though, > that I > couldn't. > > Is there still any momentum behind MacRuby? Is there any solution to the > issue > of mixing it with ARC? I really hope the answer to these two questions is > "yes." > > Thank you, > Michael Shantzis > > > On May 16, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Carolyn Ann Grant <carolyn.ann.gr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, I've got a question about the future of MacRuby. I like it, and have >> started working on a project or two using it, but I've been reading about GC >> and ARC, Ruby 2.0, RubyMotion and so on, and wonder where MacRuby is going? >> I'm quite concerned because I've put a good amount of time into my MacRuby >> projects. >> >> I wish I had the knowledge and skill to help with MacRuby - I really do like >> it! - but unfortunately I don't. I also don't want to invest a lot of >> further time in MacRuby if it's not going anywhere. (And I really can't >> spare the $200 it would take to buy RubyMotion.) >> >> I know this comes across as a bit impertinent, but I really would like to >> know what's happening with MacRuby development. Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel
