From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T01:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [suby-ruby] Your all time desired fundemental Ruby mod

Hi,

On 16.1.2005, at 16:46, gabriele renzi wrote:

> Jim Menard ha scritto:
>> On Jan 15, 2005, at 7:23 PM, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
>>> I'm taking a little poll.
>>>
>>> Let say you're Matz, but without any of the pressures of keeping up  
>>> with a
>>> previous version of Ruby. What one thing above all others would you  
>>> like to
>>> see differ about Ruby?
>>>
>> Two very different things: a truly cross-platform GUI and IO's  
>> concurrency.
>
> talking about Io and crossp'latform.. a student from robert feldt made 
> a thesis about a ruby+opengl gui toolkit inspired from Io's one and 
> Squeak's one. It would be a long way behind wx or tk, anyway :)

Interesting, is this anywhere to be found? Since, I need to write a GUI 
toolkit this year. Going the way of everything in OpenGL, naked 
objects+theme stylesheet+layout stylesheet, distributed with 
DRb-centric middleware, programmable, make it work, make it right, make 
it fast.

-Ilmari