Roadmap

MacRuby Roadmap

Important: this roadmap represents some general guidelines for upcoming releases and doesn’t attempt to make any guarantee.

0.1 (released 2008-03-13)

• First public release.
• Object model is based on the Objective-C runtime.
• Basic Objective-C messaging.
• Can read BridgeSupport files.
• Integration with the Objective-C garbage collector.

0.2 (released 2008-06-06)

• Rewrite of the String, Array and Hash builtin classes using CoreFoundation.
• Re-implementation of the Ruby interface on the CoreFoundation classes.
• Toll-free bridging between Ruby primitive classes and CoreFoundation.
• Pseudo-stability. Eliminating all discovered GC crashers and memory leaks.

0.3 (released 2008-09-08)

• Using the Objective-C method dispatcher for pure Ruby method dispatch.
• RubyGems should work.
• IB3 support.
• HotCocoa layer.
• Performance work, should be fast.

0.4 (released 2009-03-09)

• Threaded GC by default.
• 64-bit support.
• DTrace probes.
• MacRuby Objective-C API, to control the runtime from a pure Objective-C environment.
• Embeddable MacRuby.framework.
• Support for passed-by-reference arguments.

0.5 (to be released, no release date planned yet)

• Better support for bytestrings.
• Rewrite IO with CoreFoundation.
• New virtual machine based on LLVM.

0.6 (to be released, no release date planned yet)

• RubyCocoa compatible layer.
• OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) conformance.
• AppleEvent API.