From: Chanon Sajjamanochai Date: 2006-08-15T23:57:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Lightweight Ruby? Yes, Nintendo DS and other game consoles could be future targets. The thing is, to invest in a technology (including training employees to learn it, developing libraries and tools for it) I'd like to be assured that it will be a future proof decision. Thank you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "gregarican" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby To: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:45 PM Subject: Re: Lightweight Ruby? > What do you mean by lightweight? Ruby certainly seems to be portable, > in that it can be implemented on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, BSD, BeOS, > OS/2, Solaris, AIX, etc. Are you looking to implement Ruby on an > embedded device like a PDA, Smartphone, game console, etc.? > > Chanon Sajjamanochai wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was the one who started the "Using Ruby in a commercial application?" >> thread. >> Thanks for all the replies! >> >> After some more consideration on using Ruby embedded in C++ for games, it >> started to become clear that the main reason that I wouldn't want to use >> it >> yet is because of portability and lightweightness. >> >> Lua which is more widely used in games is a lot more lightweight and >> portable. >> >> The main reason this is important to me is that porting games to >> different >> platforms might be a problem if the scripting language used isn't >> portable >> to other platforms. >> >> But I really like the Ruby language/syntax .. I just wish there was a >> more >> lightweight version of it that is more portable. Heavy features such as >> threads wouldn't be required so that it could be more lightweight. >> >> Anyways, I searched the archives and found a few people saying they were >> working on something like this. Also there is something called "minruby" >> which doesn't have any documentation. >> >> Anyone know of any information about a lightweight Ruby project or is >> working on one? >> >> Thank you!, >> Chanon > > >