From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T05:47:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby has ruined my Java (was Re: Ruby has ruined my C++)

Hello tony,

ts> mathew wrote on 7/18/2005 12:30 PM:


>> platforms Ruby runs on. wxWidgets is probably the closest, but it's not

>> <URL:http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/>

ts> clicking on the 'last 90 days' i get: May 7, 2005 for the last update

ts> ouch.

ts> seeing as arachno-ruby uses fxruby, and i've been fairly impressed
ts> with that ide, i'm probably going to lean towards that...

No ArachnoRuby uses FOX not FXRuby. I've written and modified a
lot of the original FOX widgets.

You can also modify widgets with fxruby but it is sometimes
more trouble to do it with ruby and it can result in bad performance
if you do it in a simple, non optimized way. Drawing and
layout calculation can take a serious amount of pure ruby instructions
(integer operations and function calls through a lot of wrappers)
which might be factor 100x slower then C.

And for wxruby: I wouldn't give to much attention to the last update
date. Whats important is how the CVS changed over the last 3 month.
If there are no improvements it's a clear sign of a problem.

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