#Speculation_Saturday ... Is a new public release coming soon?

General (non-technical) Off-Topic
#1

Judging by the fact that daily build occurrences have slowed down to a trickle and the fact that the last public release was about 3 months ago, I’m hereby officially speculating that something big is about to go down!  :slight_smile:

Possibilities that might be keeping Corona Labs busy…

A) New public release imminent and final preps take all the time… 

B ) New public release, marking the last of non-Windows Phone era + Windows Phone capable beta program

C) Too busy playing with IOS8 & Yosemite

D) Too busy learning Swift and trying to figure out how to keep Corona SDK users from flocking away… 

E) Dropping all else and fixing the remaining widget bugs  :wink:

F) Summer time, vacation time, enjoying the sun time… 

I vote for ( B ) … Lets see what you think is happening? Speculate away!  :slight_smile:

#2

I’d go for the WP8 (and the HTML5 ?) release. iOS8 is something to work towards but I can’t see it being a significant problem. I don’t see anyone flocking to Swift, it doesn’t run on Android or Windows Phone 8. They may be working hard on zero bugs, especially for WP8. What Corona don’t want is for the release of WP8 to suddenly lead to a rush of games with compatibility problems appearing on the Windows Phone Store.

Some of the swift thing is just weird. Their ‘modern’ list is hardly anything special. What does ‘function pointers unified with closures’ mean ? When function pointers are declared and returned so their definition is out of scope, they either carry that scope with them or they don’t. 

local a = 2 function returnSomePointer()  local a = 1   return function() print(a) end  end b = returnSomePointer() b()

you can argue a is 2 (scope in which it is called) or 1 (scope in which it is defined) but you can’t ‘unify’ it ! - is it 1.5 then ?

#3

I’d go for the WP8 (and the HTML5 ?) release. iOS8 is something to work towards but I can’t see it being a significant problem. I don’t see anyone flocking to Swift, it doesn’t run on Android or Windows Phone 8. They may be working hard on zero bugs, especially for WP8. What Corona don’t want is for the release of WP8 to suddenly lead to a rush of games with compatibility problems appearing on the Windows Phone Store.

Some of the swift thing is just weird. Their ‘modern’ list is hardly anything special. What does ‘function pointers unified with closures’ mean ? When function pointers are declared and returned so their definition is out of scope, they either carry that scope with them or they don’t. 

local a = 2 function returnSomePointer()  local a = 1   return function() print(a) end  end b = returnSomePointer() b()

you can argue a is 2 (scope in which it is called) or 1 (scope in which it is defined) but you can’t ‘unify’ it ! - is it 1.5 then ?