I did some crazy research in the Unity game engine, particularly the sound engine of the iphone port.

My result so far is that there is about 0 - 80 milliseconds unpredictable delay for the sound engine, which makes it less suitable for real time audio applications.

However, I did find the engine extremely polished in every other aspect, the component approach (similar to mix-ins in Ruby) is so powerful. When I was using the engine, I kept thinking what if this is done in Haskell, and so far most of my answers are that there has to be a break through in Haskell tool chain in order to do what Unity can possibly do now.

Some background of Unity:

• scriptable part of the engine runs on top of Mono's runtime
• multiple languages (C#, Javascript, Boo)
• static typing, with optional dynamic typing
• type inference !!!!
• component based OO approach
• very very powerful runtime manipulation
• very high performance
• ahead of time compilation for iPhone, extra speed
• unbelievably polished workflow
• extremely friendly community

The Unity developers really know what they are doing!

Wish Haskell can compile to CLR ... :p

虽然完全没创意 ><

当初上 CS 的时候就是冲着做游戏去的，不过后来课太杂居然把这个正经事给忘了。

虽然第一版奇破无比，不过毕竟是第一个娱乐啊，开心的说。

Icy WoWWiki 终于有第一个评论了，是个四星。

现在有点明白为什么淘宝上的店都那么注重评论了。自己的产品真的会很在意的。

四星可能说明做工还是有点粗糙吧，恩，我知道有些 img 的 style 还没调好。有点懒 ><

I just updated both Icy Wiki and Icy WoWWiki. With this update, they are simply the fastest wiki viewer in the world.

Technically, what I feel right is that both viewers are using the same engine underneath, they differ only in resource bundles and a configuration file. All the models, controllers and helpers are the same.

What's unusual is that the data structure for configuration is a record made of a group of pure functions. This kind of thing is possible but very difficult to do with Objective-C and C, Haskell's functional nature and flexible type system really helped me here.

I'm never good enough for C, I know it ...

刚看 cocoachina 的时候还是挺震惊的，看到这么多很牛的游戏和软件都是大陆开发者（好多还是北京的）做的，确实很出乎意料。

现在 Icy Wiki 唯一的优势就是前三个字的本地检索，这是其它 Wiki 软件在速度上赶不上的。但是毕竟是第一版，很多功能都不全，也没有本地储存和其它人性化的功能。可能是由于圣诞都促销的原因，虽然 Icy Wiki 比以前的软件有更多的曝光率，但是销量还不如以前没有曝光的软件。Wiki 这里的竞争太激烈，有那么多免费软件，不会有人考虑付费版本的。

下一版已经做的差不多了，打算过节后传上去看看。市场定位是不和 Wikipanian、Handy Wiki 从功能上争，而是从速度和简洁上取胜，其实这也是一开始的定位，没有自己的特色不会有人理的。