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Don't go with Ruby for game development. Much less with RubyMotion. I love Ruby, I have made games with Ruby using Gosu and it simply wouldn't work on a mobile
by carno 12y ago
Don't go with Ruby for game development. Much less with RubyMotion.
I love Ruby, I have made games with Ruby using Gosu and it simply wouldn't work on a mobile device. The GC will kill you app and create random frame drops.
- evilduck 12y agoIt's worth noting that RubyMotion's GC is not the same as MRI or JRuby's GC. I don't know enough about GC differences to say much more, but I do know games have been written in RubyMotion just fine.
- AlexeyBrin 12y agoThere is no GC in RubyMotion.
- AlexeyBrin 12y agoI think you are confusing the Ruby interpreter with RubyMotion. RubyMotion is a compiler, there is no GC involved.
- stashpro 12y agoRubyMotion is not standard Ruby, it is a reimplementation of Ruby using the Objective-C runtime.
- carno 12y agoYou guys are right, forgot that RM compiles to objc. Then it might work! Even then, when making a game you want to stand on the shoulders of a good development community, go with the biggest community for iOS. So far it seems to be Unity.