[kwhinnery]

A lot has changed in the 1.8 release, and I'm sorry to hear you ran into problems with earlier versions. Our abstraction layer can be a bit "magical" sometimes, and we need to do a better job communicating the tips and best practices that we've learned from our major apps, such as the NBC flagship iPad and mobile apps, and the Jimmy Fallon apps. We've actually been releasing a lot of content on manual memory management and app structures lately, which we hope will be helpful in this. That content is on our dev blog and wiki.appcelerator.org

In terms of the bugs I am hearing about, that really sucks on our part. If youre using Titanium and run into an issue that's really giving you trouble, my team monitors messages to [e-mail] - we're out in the dev forums as much as we can but questions do go unanswered sometimes. Please let us know if your question does.

All that said, we've had over 30k apps (that we know of) shipped to the stores, the best of which stack up very well against their native-only counterparts. We have work left to do to make Titanium bulletproof but we think we're headed in the right direction.