From: Brian McCallister <brianm@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T07:48:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Lightweight Ruby?

Lua embeds much easier than Ruby, IMHO. This is especially if you use  
multiple threads (which most games do, I believe).

Best tool for the job isn't always your favorite tool :-)

-Brian

ps: ruby threads are lightweight, they are not system/posix threads

On Aug 15, 2006, at 7:16 AM, 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
>
>