From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T05:10:27+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007, Joe Wiltrout wrote:
> What do you do with Ruby? I'v heard that programming better graphic 
> games like WoW would be hellishly hard. To my friend Matt, this stuff 
> seems to come naturally. To me, not so. I read 8 chapters of Why's and 
> took the in-browser tutorial of Ruby, and most of what I learned 
> involves making ("Damn those syntax errors!") go backwards. With ("Damn 
> those syntax errors!").reverse. And most of the other stuff just floated 
> around like jelly in space.

If your ambition is to create a game like WoW, then you're barking up
the wrong tree.  It's possible in Ruby, sure... but you're not going to
like it.

WoW embeds a language called Lua... it's what is used to write mods.
However, it's not a powerful enough language for the actual game to be
written in.

Having a game that was scriptable in Ruby would be outstanding, and
certainly possible now... but I think it's going to be a long time
before there's a successful game that's written in a langauge that's
higher level than C/C++.

Ben