From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2004-11-22T23:08:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and the XBox

On Nov 21, 2004, at 14:23, Phlip wrote:

> But why do so many game shops use Lua?
>
>  - an early lead in game development
>  - pure C implementation
>  - works inside a game box
>  - "easy" to bond with C
>  - super-efficient VM opcodes
>  - dynamic typing, with block closures
>  - minimal standard library, with discardable components
>
> I suspect I can humbly submit the indefensible opinion to this 
> newsgroup
> that Ruby has esthetic and technical advantages over Lua, but this 
> doesn't
> necessarily mean that Ruby can efficiently and responsively fit inside 
> an
> XBox and run games.

I think one thing that may hurt Ruby in this market is: it's not 
threadsafe. Being able to run multiple interpreters in the same process 
could be, to use gaming terminology, a PK-ing feature.


Nathaniel
Terralien, Inc.

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