Rethinking Ruby and Romancing About Languages

As the title would suggest, I threw away a good portion of the day on my romantic, emotional choice to redo everything in Ruby.

I… had a wakeup call. Using Ruby/SDL was my reality check.

In short, the thing threw tantrums at random, denied having methods that the manual listed, and generally misbehaved.

I’m not going to sit here and rant. I’ve got things to do. I just want to take back what I said in my last post.

I’m sorry for all this emotion, but I get alot more wishy-washy when I don’t feel as much pressure. (IE: When the game doesn’t count for a score, and I plan on working on it past the compo anyway)

I’ma shut my trap and get back to work now.

Peace.

—Mr. Dude

Comments

philomory
14. Sep 2009 · 12:36 UTC
If you’re still interested in trying out ruby, but want to drop Ruby/SDL like a bad habit, I highly recommend checking out Gosu: libgosu.org
philomory
14. Sep 2009 · 12:39 UTC
Aaaand I realize now that you already considered Gosu, but chose Ruby/SDL instead. Me not reading previous posts FTL.
ippa
14. Sep 2009 · 18:21 UTC
I was about to mention Gosu too since it’s fast and very poweful (used it for my entry) .. and then I read philomorys comment. What exaclty do you mean by “Prefer raster to sprites-on-polygons” ?