From: Hynek Schlawack <hynek@...2006.ularx.de>
Date: 2006-01-06T06:33:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible to create a GUI/TUI toolkit using ruby?

* "simonh" <simonharrison@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:

> this may be a daft question, but is it possible to create a widget
> toolkit using a scripting language? I know that most are written in C
> / C++ (QT, fox, wx), also ncurses for terminal interfaces. Therefore,
> is it impossible to do such a thing with ruby? Or is it just to much
> hard work?

It is possible. You'd just need an interface to the low-level graphical
interface (in UNIX's case: X11). It's just pretty useless due to the
poor performance that would be expectable from a scripting language.