From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T10:31:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of Ruby vs JRuby for GUI

ThoML wrote:
>> I am actually looking for *quick* and *easy *way to create a GUI appl.
> 
> I don't know how/if/to what extent/how fast jruby is/will be adapting
> ruby1.9 features. If java + swing + ruby18 is okay for you, I would
> rather use jruby. There are a few libraries around that make the use
> of swing easier. Just yesterday ... E.g. http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org
> (I haven't used it myself yet though so I don't know if it's any
> good.) IIRC there are more libraries like this around too.

re 1.9 features: How fast is an open question, but we're pushing out 
JRuby 1.1 final very soon, and other than maintenance releases our two 
big goals for the next major JRuby are 1.9 feature support and 
completely rewritten Java integration. I suspect the 1.9 features will 
be easy.

- Charlie