[MacRuby-devel] A Future for MacRuby

[David Frantz]

Good questions.   

I'd certainly like to see Apple put its weight behind MacRuby and leave us with an official word of support.  Like you I have a hard time putting much effort into something that is wishy washy in its relationship with Apple.  I still use Python for most of my scripting needs and need compelling reasons to pull away from it.  

As to Objective-C it really isn't that bad.  Especially if development is done on modern hardware, where it is almost as interactive as working with an interpreter.   I'm not sure if a reasonable person would see MacRuby as a threat to Objective-C.   I could see people developing the opinion that it is a waste of time.  There is a difference!   

In any event my impression is a bit different than yours, I actually thought things where going fairly well at Apple MacRuby wise.   Maybe I missed something.  

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On Dec 20, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Dan Farrand <danf at 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.
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