[MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

[Ian Ragsdale]

This does look awesome, and I just bought a license - the price is less than the prevailing rate for an hour of iOS dev time, and you deserve to be paid for your hard work.

That said, I'm wondering if/when any of this will become open source?  It's been a long time since I trusted proprietary code more than open source stuff.  Open source projects can aways be forked or maintained by someone else, but if a proprietary company drops support for whatever reason, your codebase depending on them is in trouble.  

I'm not trying to suggest in any way that you guys would do that, but it does make me a little nervous suggesting using this to any of my clients.

Sorry if this comes across as a downer, I'm really excited about this project and would love to use it, I'm just curious about future plans.  I wonder if this could be handled with a dual license - perhaps free/open source apps could use it for free, but paid apps would require a license?  I think that would encourage a lot more people to use it overall.

Anyway, thanks for your hard work, and I'm looking forward to testing it out.

- Ian

On May 3, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I am extremely excited to announce the immediate availability of
> RubyMotion, a revolutionary toolchain for iOS development in Ruby.
> 
> (RubyMotion is what I have been working on these last 6 months. :))
> 
> RubyMotion is a commercial flavor of MacRuby for iOS that includes an
> optimized runtime, a brand-new static compiler and memory model, and a
> command-line interface.
> 
> If you are familiar with MacRuby you should be all set to develop iOS
> apps right away.
> 
> You can find more information about RubyMotion on its website.
> 
> http://www.rubymotion.com
> 
> For a limited time only, RubyMotion can be purchased at a 25% discounted rate.
> 
> The developer center features guides, articles and a pointer to the
> sample code repository.
> 
> http://www.rubymotion.com/developer-center
> 
> Also, the awesome folks at The Pragmatic Studio released an amazing
> 50-minute screencast on the product. Check it out, it's free!
> 
> http://pragmaticstudio.com/screencasts/rubymotion
> 
> If you want to stay connected, make sure to follow @RubyMotion on Twitter.
> 
> http://twitter.com/RubyMotion
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Laurent
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