Is there any equivalent project in the Ruby-community to the Croquet
project in the Smalltalk-community?
There isn’t an equivalent project to croquet in ANY community, as far as
I know.
Aur
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:40:02PM +0900, [email protected] wrote:
Is there any equivalent project in the Ruby-community to the Croquet
project in the Smalltalk-community?
Frankly, I’m not sure Ruby is suited to that sort of project right now
at
all. The Ruby interpreter might be a little on the slow side for that.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
I’d say Ruby is perfectly capable of such a project. It will definitely
be
slower than Smalltalk, but with YARV and Ruby 2.0 our slowness
“problems”
will start going away. We already have all the components to such a
system:
wrappers for OpenGL / SDL, network communication through many libraries
from
straight Net::HTTP or EventMachine to Rinda and ap4r. We have Drb for
propagating real-time code changes throughout the system.
It’s just a matter of putting that all together, and man is Croquet an
enormous undertaking.
Cool cool stuff.
Jason