From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T06:58:46+09:00
Subject: Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)"

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:50:02 +0900, MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 3:24 pm, Trollen Lord <trollenl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It wouldn't be hard removing the Cairo dependency and making it more
> dynamic.
> 
> It actually would, since Cairo is full bitmap rendering suite...it
> would involve implementing all the of the bit-bliting all over agin,
> for one (very small) thing. Cairo is a general purpose screen drawing
> library. Replacing/re-implementing it would be a *HUGE* (and
> pointless) task.

The Shoes drawing stuff doesn't expose cairo directly, however.  In
principle Shoes could also be implemented atop something like
Swing/Java2D without a huge amount of effort.

JShoes might be an interesting project for my copious spare time (ha!)
actually.

-mental