[MacRuby-devel] A Future for MacRuby

[Kevin Poorman]

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.
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> 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:
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>> if you don't have fun, you are doing it wrong.
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>> On 20 Dec 2011, at 17:06, Dan Farrand <danf at greenRiverComputing.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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