From: Beoran <beoran@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T05:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Standardizing FFI based wrappers

Julian Raschke wrote:
> Gosu has no connection to the SDL, it is actually a pretty thin layer
> around the C++ version of the same library :) I am also not sure if it
> makes sense to rubify game libraries which need every bit of
> performance, but if so, I think the Rubygame and RUDL libraries could
> very well be wrappers on top of Ruby/SDL.
>
> Julian
>
>   
Gosu does make use of SDL(indirectly) at least on Linux. 

And performance is not a big problem.  I feel I need to stress is that 
wrapping SDL or other C game libraries with Ruby does make a lot of 
sense, since most of the blitting, etc happens on the C side of things 
anyway. Pygame proves that  this approach works well for Python, and I'm 
convinced it woks well for Ruby, at the very least for 2D games. A 
two-language approach makes a lot of sense, with the low level stuff in 
the C libraries and the high level stuff in Ruby.

Kind Regards,

Beoran.