From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T18:59:28+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 02:20:06PM +0900, Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> >Writing something like WoW from scratch would indeed be a herculean task.
> >There are some libraries for various languages that eliminate a lot of
> >the more complex work, but that requires a fair bit of research to choose
> >your libraries well and learn their APIs.
> 
> Ruby would not be my first choice for the bulk of the game, just because
> that's a task that really DOES need the performance of a high-end system,
> and even a factor of two slowdown might not be acceptable.
> 
> It'd be interesting to compare with Lua for the in-game GUI engine.

Agreed, on all counts.

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