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 for WWDC)

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 2009-03-08)

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.

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

RubyCocoa compatible layer.

OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) conformance.

AppleEvent API.