SproutCore 2.0 is very much alive. Tom Dale and I have been working on it since we left Strobe over a month ago, and have been using it quite a bit in client projects.

The feature we've been working on recently is to eliminate the <span> wrappers around data-bound DOM elements and bound collections. We landed that patch (and created a new library in the process, https://github.com/tomhuda/metamorph.js/) and are fixing some bugs that have come up since we landed it.

Expect a release announcement, as well as more specifics about where we go from here in the next few days.

I wouldn't expect you to know, or if you did know, be able to disclose ... but I was more curious about the rest of the team that's now headed out to Facebook. Looking forward to the upcoming announcement / blog post.

Sounds like SproutCore will still be worked on outside of Facebook:

https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/133955395013181440

https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/133651471983050753