[MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

[Matt Aimonetti]

I agree with most of you, I think that Laurent deserves the financial
backing for his work but I also have to admit that I'm worried about the
future of MacRuby and what would happen to my RubyMotion projects if
Laurent decides to move on.

I don't have an issue with the commercial aspect of RubyMotion, I think
that's fair and will ensure support, continuous development and proper
attention.
However the proprietary aspect of RubyMotion is a bit more problematic for
someone who strongly believes in open source. That said, none of the other
alternatives are currently open source either. (I guess MobiRuby will be
the first)

Currently RubyMotion is a great solution to hack/prototype small apps for
iOS but I'll seat back and see what the community does with it and where
Laurent will take the project.
If RubyMotion's source code was open, I would certainly be less worried but
I also understand Laurent's reasons.
I'm looking forward to seeing the upcoming UI libraries and the first
cocos2d based game written in RubyMotion and all the nice UI libraries to
avoid writing all the Cocoa cruft.  As a matter of fact, I believe that
RubyMotion will open the door for creative people to come up with something
equivalent of http://processing.org/ on iOS.

That said, I'm looking forward to seeing Laurent contribute his new memory
management system back to MacRuby and finally make it GC free since he
proved it's totally doable!

My 2 cents worth

- Matt


On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Ian Ragsdale <macruby at ianragsdale.com>wrote:

> Personally I'm happy to pay for it, and in fact already have.  I'd just
> like to see some of these improvements make their way back to the open
> source community, and be reassured that if HipByte for some reason doesn't
> work out, any projects I have built in MacRuby are supported going forward.
>
> - Ian
>
> On May 3, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Jeremy McAnally wrote:
>
> The catch in situations like this is that it may have never been written
> in the first place if Laurent wasn't able to take the time and dedicate the
> energy full time to build it.  Personally, I'd rather fund continued
> development of it with a license than never to have had it in the first
> place.
>
> --Jeremy
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:15:52 -0500 Ian Ragsdale
>> <macruby at ianragsdale.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I have to agree. I have no fundamental problem with paying for stuff,
>> but I do have trouble with a code base that can't later be picked up
>> and actively developed by someone else if the initial developers
>> vanish. Apologies for injecting any negativity here.
>>
>> Perry
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