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I wonder if switching to JRuby wouldn't have solved some of his problems? I'd imagine that distribution is much easier on JRuby. I suppose the issue is with libraries, but I'm not familiar with the libraries he mentioned.


Possibly, but I'm much more comfortable in C++ than Java. I also get a much easier route to iOS if I stick with C++.


With JRuby, you wouldn't have to be comfortable with Java. You get to use Ruby with the benefit of it running in the JVM.


Sounds like he's wanting to use a lot of native C++ libraries, so I imagine he'd still run into performance problems even if he found a way to use JNI with JRuby.




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