From: Trollen Lord <trollenlord@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T07:06:08+09:00
Subject: Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)"

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> 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.
>

Take a look at http://hackety.org/images/shoes-0.r252-small.png . The
rightmost sample. Is that generated using Cairo at some phase? It looks like
native, not themed, to me. Good enough for now. What is striking.. Is that
the toolkit handles is so that the leftmost and the image on the middle are
possible as well without twiddling with code. That is sufficient.

Technical hair splitting is not my panachea, it's too moot. If the Cairo
does all that and could do even the missing ones (WPF? QT?) then it is
simply wonderful to me. I just don't want to ever have to even know that it
exists at all if I am attempting to solve my primary task.

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