From: "Carlo E. Prelz" Date: 2013-03-04T19:34:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Does this specific sound library exist? Subject: Re: Does this specific sound library exist? Date: sab 02 mar 13 09:51:08 +0900 (oops... I was left without internet for the whole weekend!) Quoting Dirk Vogel (lists@ruby-forum.com): > Your last paragraphs seem to nudge me into the direction of MacOS / > iOS. That's because it is in your history... It would allow you to break the problem into first learning to develop an app, and later maybe to make it multiplatform. If I were you, I would face the whole problem (if you can manage financially, of course) as a way to gain experience. These pet projects tend to become stale quite quickly if the only motivation is a financial one (even if only in the form of small voluntary payments). The drive should be to wish to see how the idea translates into practice. > ��� attention to what you call the media-related part > > This last comment of yours is a bit cryptic for me. You say that "the > media-related part should have been given proper attention". Why "should > have been"? Is it already too late? Do you reckon Mac or iOS > applications can't meet success without giving the medias a considerable > attention? What I meant is that most of the people I know who shell out the $$$'s for a mac do it because they use it professionally, mostly in media environments. If Apple began to be perceived as flaky in the media sector, a lot of bad consequences would befall... > ��� every Android version (of every future hardware) will engender > necessary > code changes This is not necessarily true. A recompilation may be sufficient. OTOH problems may happen between one implementation and another one. The chinese company that produced my phone did invest a fraction of the resources that Samsung does in its development process. A lot of surprises may happen. > Hm. Not really convincing either. And, as always, an important question > raises after all that. Would it still be a good idea realizing this > one-platform approach with Ruby? Wouldn't it be more straightforward to > choose Objective-C for MacOS or Java for Android? (Or even C# in the > less probable case of Windows?) Sure, my starting point was the choice > of a modern, relatively simple and interesting programming language, but > that was closely linked to my multi-plaatform hope. That being > shattered, isn't the linguistic disadvantage of Objective-C or Java > counterbalanced by the fact that they're the most direct, maybe failsafe > ways to address their OSes? Every person I know who has tried ruby has become fond of it. As you can read on the Ruby site, Ruby is a programmer's best friend. My experience is that it makes the whole coding procedure cleaner and more enjoyable. But maybe you would find it preferrable to start with Objective-C, so later you could notice the difference? ;-) Carlo -- * Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte, * K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido@fluido.as che bisogno ci sarebbe * di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)