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Re: [pygame] man oh man Java is painful



Yeah, I saw that and poked around a bit and it's great. I should mess
around some with it. I have been thinking that since I want to
eventually port my game to iphone, I'll have to learn obj-c, so why
not java first... how hard can it be? haha.

I actually found a great android game tutorial just now... it's almost
pygame ish, even uses words like Rect and Surface. go figure!

http://mobile.dzone.com/articles/beginning-android-game




On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Stuart Axon <stu.axon+pygame@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey, I'm sure being on this mailinglist you've seen this:
> http://pygame.renpy.org/
>
> Apart from that there seem to be a lot of potential ways of using python or
> python like languages but nothing that is nicely packaged up and easy
>
> (For instance a quick google finds this for cython
> http://gitorious.org/nava#more
> ).
>
> I'm obviously aware of the android scripting environment, but that doesn't
> seem like a good solution for distributing apps.
>
> On 2 November 2011 14:45, Sean Wolfe <ether.joe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting into the wonderful world of Android which means Java. Dear
>> lord I remember now why I hate this language. I love the pythonic
>> philosophy that there should be an obvious way to get things done. It
>> means I get to experiment and more often than not, my first experiment
>> actually works!
>>
>> It seems like just as Python is great at taking out syntax and
>> overhead to let you get to actually working on your ideas, to the same
>> or greater extent, Java gets in the way. I mean in the Python world I
>> don't really need an IDE, maybe a souped up text editor is all. But
>> now I see why IDEs are so much more helpful in the java world... cause
>> there is so much more overhead to manage.
>>
>> That being said, being a mostly Python programmer up to this point,
>> I'm sure C++ and C# are just as horrible. So it's not specific to
>> Java.
>>
>> Anyhow, back to work. But please somebody tell me the joy of game
>> programming will come back cause right now I'm just slogging through
>> muck.
>>
>>
>> *sniff* thanks for letting me cry...
>>
>>
>> --
>> A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
>> if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
>> - Abraham Maslow
>
>



-- 
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
- Abraham Maslow