Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Better mobile support? Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:59:06 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net meDc6OXKplmWGcBEMYTRCw/E40T2dz6k9pQlkfXfQYC2MsRrWW2khfVRIIJL31rzM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:J25Wj9s0loF1ss5p8l+jXdNiRBw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.ruby:6726 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