From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T17:50:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29826] Re: FXRuby FreeRIDE Spike uploaded.

> From: Rich Kilmer [mailto:rich@infoether.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:43 PM
>
> I think that the text editing component should NOT be in pure Ruby.  A
> rich-text editing component is extremely complex and responsiveness should
> be a big focus.  I remember the original pure-Java components...they were
> REALLY slow and got in the way.  As long as the editing component has a
> sophisticated enough API and that API was completely wrapped by Ruby calls
> (like I did with Scintilla) I think it gives you the best of both worlds.
> Remember, you are always going to be tied to some toolkit for a
> GUI in Ruby.

I agree with this as well. I believe that editing responsiveness is crucial.
You can implement a world of wonderful features, but poor responsiveness can
make it all but unusable.

I certainly would be willing to buy the idea that basic editing could be
responsive in pure Ruby. But by the time you get to the higher level
functions that require real-time parsing and reparsing of incomplete code, I
would be worried that things could slow down considerably.

Curt