Is there any news from EmberConf 
Yep any update? Really curious myself as well.
@DevinMcQueeney goal is to get an alpha build out within the next couple weeks
â Erik Bryn⢠(@ebryn) March 27, 2014
I was at EmberConf. They were ultimately embarrassed that they hyped up a launch of some sort at the conference but theyâre very close to having a release.
Remember this is essentially a rewrite of the view layer, so they want to make sure itâs in tip-top shape when they do release it. The good news is that itâs going to solve a lot of performance problems (they stated 2-3x speed increase), provide us with a much nicer templating syntax, and will set the foundation for a bunch of useful features in the future (server-side rendering is one example).
My main takeaway from their talk was: âWe want this to be the new gold standard of templating.â
Thanks @matthooks, are you suggesting it is getting close to having a release? How close? Thanks!
Iâm not working on the code, but Erik Bryn and Kris Selden seemed to think they were about a few weeks out from the first release, as noted in the tweet that @hooper quoted.
Is the bulk of the work being done in a private repo? The last commit on the official repo was 10 days ago:
https://github.com/tildeio/htmlbars/commit/ddf993f1ca117e182285c0f280972b65c5051282
Iâm sure it is. Though, I think they already have some placeholder repos ready to go in the Ember GitHub accountâŚ
The ember integration code is being pushed to this branch: https://github.com/ebryn/ember.js/tree/metal-views
Looking at the commits it seems that the whole view layer is being re-factored.
About the branch I mentioned earlier: it doesnât seem to be the case anymore. Anyone have any news about it? Or any other place to see whats going on? It seems a bit of a secret at this point.
Looks like work is going on here: https://github.com/tildeio/htmlbars
Thatâs just part of the problem. The integration part with ember itself is blocking the release. It includes a rewrite of the view layer. So, not a easy task.
But itâs hard to help when we donât know where the code is. What is the goals (details). What has been done and whatâs pending.
@ebryn, @krisselden, weâd like to hear something from you
Our goal is to get HTMLBars merged in for the 1.8 beta series, which will be created around 6/17. I personally would have liked to see it happen for 1.7, which would have been next week, but @krisselden has been pretty busy since EmberConf.
I am SUPER excited! Is there some place I can try it out now?
Not yet, but there will definitely be an opportunity to try it out prior to the 1.8 beta series.
Unless youâre living under a rock, youâll know the moment when that is 
cough fix ember select next cough.
Thanks for the update. Donât hesitate to put out the klaxon call if yaâll need help.