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When the first game came out, it was written in Lua and they had embedded a runtime in the iOS application - interesting that Apple at first forbade that practi

When the first game came out, it was written in Lua and they had embedded a runtime in the iOS application - interesting that Apple at first forbade that practice, to the point of scanning libraries for interpreters. It then became the #1 iOS game - goes to show, allowing companies to bring their own language to the platform allows for unexpected successes. Hopefully Apple learned from that lesson. All the same, 800 employees for a game seems excessive, but then we have 5000 employees at Facebook for a website..

serve_yay 11y ago
The only lesson Apple seems to have learned is that the App Store is great, and everything they're doing is working gangbusters.
noir_lord 11y ago
> Facebook for a website.. That might be the greatest understatement I've seen for a while. It's technically true but it really doesn't paint any kind of picture. Facebook is a website in the same way that the Library of Congress is a 'place that stores stuff'. I'm not a huge fan of Facebook as a company but I admire the engineering talent that goes into dealing with 1.5 billion active monthly users, the incredible problems of adding even tiny features at that kind of scale.