TI will keep updating the OS and try to block Ndless. From my observations, it seems like it takes a considerable amount of work to find a loophole to install Ndless, and as the amount of people here gets ever smaller, the chance of finding a loophole will decrease. If Ndless isn't available on new calculators, there will be no new members, and C++ projects (which tend to be the most fun because they get the most out of the CPU) won't be usable, so no one will visit anymore. No GBA emulators, no crafti, etc.

In addition, nobody will create projects if nobody will use them. It seems like no one is downloading projects, which doesn't encourage programmers at all.

So can we officially wave goodbye to TI-Nspire programming? There doesn't really seem to be a good solution to revitalize this forum. It seems like TI-Nspire programming is a thing of the past now when smartphones are plentiful. It seems like the whole site, along with all the other calculator programming sites, will die pretty soon when people ditch calculator gaming in favor of smartphones.

The above was posted four years ago and still remains relevant today. ndless seems stalled. Has TI finally devised a way to keep them from cracking the OS? If so, then no one who buys a new Nspire or Nspire II will be able to run ndless. Interest will be limited to current users and that group will shrink as members go on to other things, die, or for whatever reason just don't care anymore. Naturally this is a downward spiral. Fewer users interested means that fewer developers will be willing to invest resources to come out with new software. Less new software means fewer users will be interested and so the cycle continues. My 2₵ YMMV.