[MacRuby-devel] The Future of MacRuby

[Henry Maddocks]

I've been a happy user of MacRuby for a while now and I have been intending to give back by helping with the development, so Matt's message is timely and inspirational. Here is a brain dump of some of the thoughts I've had about the project.

I'd like to see a statement of the goal for MacRuby. The website mainly talks about Cocoa GUI apps. I'm very keen to see MacRuby become the goto ruby for OS X and iOS, not just for writing apps, but for all ruby tasks, Rails included. Is this the future of MacRuby? 

I have Ruby, C, C++ and Obj-C experience, but the one thing that is holding me up from contributing is a simple one page description from the source level of what happens when you run a script in MacRuby. Is anyone able to write one?

I'm not sure the world needs another ruby VM. With Evan Pheonix's involvement is now the time to investigate merging the Rubinius and MacRuby VMs or are they too different? Can MacRuby leverage the work of the Rubinius team in some way?

With the death of Obj-C GC why isn't MacRuby being ported to use ARC or even retain/release? Why does it need it's own memory handling scheme?

Call 0.11 or 0.12 v1.0. If MacRuby is good enough for the Mac App Store then it's good enough to be called v1.0

Henry

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