Alloy my point was not about maintenance but the fact that MacRuby relies on the ObjC GC which is now deprecated.
In this email thread Laurent acknowledge the need to switch to static compilation and that he has a working branch he will soon merge.
This is exactly what RubyMotion just released and I'm saddened that it was not contributed back as promised.
Well, spoking of broken promises and people abandoning things, didn't you write a book on MacRuby and a couple of articles touting it, and then abandoned the project for greener pastures (Ruby, Go and such)?
What about the folks that bought into the book and MacRuby, thinking that it was a viable project, and then see you, one of the (few) main contributors abandon it -- and long before today's release of RubyMotion.
This is exactly what RubyMotion just released and I'm saddened that it was not contributed back as promised.
It's as simple as that.