From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T05:50:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Croquet

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I'd say Ruby is perfectly capable of such a project. It will definitely be
slower than Smalltalk, but with YARV and Ruby 2.0 our slowness "problems"
will start going away. We already have all the components to such a system:
wrappers for OpenGL / SDL, network communication through many libraries from
straight Net::HTTP or EventMachine to Rinda and ap4r. We have Drb for
propagating real-time code changes throughout the system.

It's just a matter of putting that all together, and man is Croquet an
enormous undertaking.

Cool cool stuff.

Jason

On 7/12/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:40:02PM +0900, jrr_nl@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Is there any equivalent project in the Ruby-community to the Croquet
> > project in the Smalltalk-community?
>
> Frankly, I'm not sure Ruby is suited to that sort of project right now at
> all.  The Ruby interpreter might be a little on the slow side for that.
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> --
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
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