Yeah, sorry to rain on your parade, bro. But these kind of ‘confirmed’ articles, in the end, help nobody. Users will be sad when it doesn’t happen, whereas neither Apple nor the MacRuby team have actually confirmed/promised this. Sorrow all around isn't good publicity.
Thanks for the update, though! :)
Automatic Reference Counting is not Garbage Collection, but it's a start, and can weakly be used as a sort of garbage collection. It is up on iOS5's site page, however, so that part is confirmed for now.
I’m talking about “MacRuby on iOS 5 - CONFIRMED!!!”.
I don't like the subject line either, but he did specify early on that it was a tongue-in-cheek quip and didn't actually confirm anything.
Thanks for clarifying this solidly, though.
Very true. However, judging by the chatter about this article on, for instance, Twitter [1], many don’t really seem to get that the ‘confirmed’ part in the title isn’t true. So I simply wanted to emphasize this point for others, not the author as he knows it already :)
He didn't say "no". He said "not yes". There's still hope, man! #glassHalfFull
Well, I simply can’t say ‘it will not happen’, because it is open-source software, so for all I know you are currently implementing it. However, I wouldn't hold your breath on someone else stepping up to make this work, because we have been saying this for a while now… C’est la vie.