Quote from: fluffypony on August 14, 2014, 11:36:56 AM

Quote from: EuroTrash on August 14, 2014, 08:21:58 AM

In regards to Monero: I don't see any sign of real development on GitHub, exception made for a few sporadic backports from bytecoin. Also the client is a memory hog (because it still loads the whole block chain in RAM) and in my opinion if they don't change that (like RIGHT NOW ffs) then in a few months it will be unusable even on a decent machine.

The Github repo is staging - dev doesn't get pushed to it until it's been tested, and even then the staging branch is not for production (that's what tagged releases are for). It would be absolutely insane to push commits straight into the staging branch, most especially because there ARE exchanges / miners / people who build straight off that branch, and if it contains bugs and falls apart we would lose credibility big time.

A month ago there were a handful of minor backports from Bytecoin, but there's nothing on the entire first page of commits that are anything but our work.

If you want to see the ongoing development, a good starting point is the Dev Diary in the weekly Monero Missives. A quick summary of the ongoing work would be:

Abstraction of blockchain functions in preparation for moving the blockchain to an embedded database instead of all in RAM:
https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/bc2 (was: https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/blockchain, moved to allow for refactoring)
rpcwallet to replace simplewallet's rpc mode for all environments that use automation (exchanges, merchant systems, gambling sites, faucets etc.):
https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/rpcwallet
unit tests for RPC functions:
https://github.com/jakoblind/bitmonero/tree/rpc_wallet_test
Proper backgrounding/forking for the daemon and rpcwallet (fork on *nix, service on Windows):
https://github.com/mikezackles/bitmonero/tree/daemonize
Move from VS2013 to mingw64 / msys2:
https://github.com/mikezackles/bitmonero/tree/mingw and https://github.com/mikezackles/bitmonero/tree/rfree_mingw_test2
Overhaul of CMakeLists to speed up build times and allow selective building of binaries and/or test suite:
https://github.com/rfree2monero/bitmonero/tree/pr-20140808-rfree-cmake
Replacement of all logging functions with OT logging system that allows for compartmentalisation of logs among other things:
https://github.com/rfree2monero/bitmonero/tree/pr-20140808-rfree-otshellutils
Complete overhaul of parts of the low-level networking code, adding QoS and bandwidth control to the daemon:
https://github.com/rfree2monero/bitmonero/tree/dev-rfree
New GUI developed from scratch -> wireframes -> mockups -> actual Qt interface. The interface is around a few weeks away from completion, then integration can start.
http://imgur.com/a/ERheR

Is there any effort being put towards minimization of blockchain bloat, which seems the biggest issue?