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Comment by codeulike | Hacker News Reader

LibGDX has a plan however - move to Intel Multi-OS Engine

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=3925

Rather surprised LibGDX didn't do this sooner. One of the niceties of LibGDX was that it was 102% free for all platforms. But then RoboVM closed source and suddenly making an iOS game stopped being free.

(although LibGDX was able to finagle a free license for small developers).

And I wish I could say I'm surprised that Oracle's not jumping in to buy this tech, as it seems like it would be a terrific addition to the Java toolset. But adding innovation to Java is, to say the least, not Oracle's strong suit.

LibGDX is made mostly by Mario Zechner, who also happens to work on/for RoboVM.

libGDX is definitely not mostly made by me. Truck factor and all :) https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/graphs/contributors

Man, having a 2:1 deleted:added ratio is pretty amazing, though.

Good luck with whatever you end up doing next though, seriously, whether it's libgdx-related or not. Y'all are good people, you do good stuff.

D'oh - I'm blushing. What I meant was that you do much awesome work on it. My apologies to the other important contributors!

In any case, thanks! I've read your book (Beginning Android Games) and used libgdx (though nothing finished or published) and enjoyed both!

Which kinda doesn't make sense since http://bugvm.com/ , a fork of RoboVM exists. Multi-OS Engine is also closed source with an indeterminate future.

I wonder why continuing with the OS branch of RoboVM (BugVM?) is not listed as one of the options?

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