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Re: Better mobile support?

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On 01/22/2013 06:28 PM, andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd love to write all my mobile apps in Ruby, but the current
> toolchains are somewhat lacking. Ruboto is really cool for Android
> development, but JRuby makes Ruby really lag, taking ten seconds to
> load the JRuby JAR on my Galaxy SIII. RubyMotion is cool for iOS
> development, but it sucks to develop with nonFOSS tools.
>
> Can we add builtin, native support for mobile app development to
> Ruby? We shouldn't have to use JRuby when Android has the NDK, for
> example.

I guess if you ask "Do you think it's a great idea to have mobile 
support in Ruby?" everybody would agree.  But if you ask "Who's gonna 
fund the development of that?" I am not so sure whether there will be 
enough takers.  I have no idea what efforts we are talking about but I 
am assuming we would need some support for a specific UI toolkit built 
in, plus more (deployment support etc.).  That looks like a fairly large 
undertaking.  My 0.02 EUR.

Kind regards

	robert

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