After quite a long period (one and half years) of active development, my favorite chat client on Mac is finally in it’s glorious 1.0 version. Head over to the official Adium blog for an interesting read on the history of the development of Adium X 1.0:
The big difference between 1.0 and the other releases is that it’s really 2 release cycles combined. We decided around the time that 0.80 came out that we would not be releasing 0.90, and instead forge ahead to 1.0 with a “fix everything” attitude. The additional time spent would allow us, we thought, to create a release that would be truly spectacular. It worked out well, but just not in an acceptable timeframe. We will not ever be doing that again if it can be helped. Taking on too much at once leads to lots of complications and unexpected delays.