From: Gregory Millam <walker@...>
Date: 2003-11-11T02:28:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: Power of Interpreted Languages

Received: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:21:15 +0900
And lo, Aredridel wrote:

> > But, would you implement a game with ruby?
> 
> MUD, yes, first person shooter? Probably not without coding critical
> sections in Objective C.

I see no reason Ruby can't be a good gaming platform for even graphic-intense games. All it really needs is a /well polished/ game to pave the way. Perl has Frozen Bubble. Python has PyDance... etc.

All that is really needed to go beyond that, such as an FPS, is to have a compiled C library with the most intense graphics routines - Blitting, managing (large) images. With Ruby doing the logic and manipulating a compiled game core doing the graphics, I'd probably be willing to pit that against Java (which is interpreted bytecode, after all).