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by fairwinds 4916 days ago
Titanium was transitioned to TideSDK in early 2012. At this point the code lacked support for any modern operating system other than Windows 7. Ubuntu and OSX support for any current versions of these OS's did not yet exist.

The challenges involved in moving forward with the code base from the previous maintainer were documented in this post:

http://www.tidesdk.org/blog/2012/11/16/1-dot-3-1-beta-releas...

The work has been steady and ongoing. The software itself is complex and substantial progress has been made. More that 1 million line changes of code were made to end of Dec, 2012.

This kind of investment and involvement in this project has been huge for us. It is certainly deeper than the rebranding and documentation effort that we also undertook as part of the project.

TideSDK became an affiliate project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI) in October, 2012. As part of this non-profit organization, we stand together with other significant and substantial open source projects (including Postgres, Drupal, Debian, Jenkins, ArchLinux) that are under the non-profit administration of the SPI.

Tens of thousands of developers now discovering TideSDK as a result of our efforts. This number is steadily increasing. Ongoing upgrades and fundamental code changes in the sources are leading to an amazing solution.

Commercial developments involving TideSDK are also underway for many. Obviously, despite the surge in mobile use, desktop development is comparatively smaller. That said, there remains an important need to address for the desktop that TideSDK is filling.

We've put plenty of effort into establishing community around TideSDK as well and to make resources available to developers:

Documentation: http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated Source Code: https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK Tutorials: Get started easily http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated/#!/guid... Q & A on Stack Overflow: Get help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tidesdk Report a Bug: Help us improve https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/issues. IRC: Chat with us on #tidesdk on freenode.net Twitter: Follow TideSDK @tidesdk. Blog: Read our blog at http://tidesdk.org/blog. Knowledge Base: Read the wiki https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/wiki Google Groups: Join our mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tidesdk.

In addition, more great things are coming this year as the result of our involvement with TideSDK. The core talent behind TideSDK formed http://coastalforge.com to bring services and support. We've also got an amazing new solution to reveal shortly that has been spawned from our work. More on these efforts quite soon.

David Pratt TideSDK Project Lead

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If I write a project that uses the web audio api and then package it up as a desktop Mac (or other OS) app with tidesdk, will it work?