From: James Britt Date: 2008-11-08T11:33:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby has a Face that it wears on its feet Farrel Lifson wrote: > 2008/11/6 James Britt : >> Kyle Hunter wrote: >>> Jayson Williams wrote: >>>> How about a melding of the two? >>> Giving shoes an official place in the Ruby language hierarchy would open >>> up a new world for desktop application programming for Ruby. >> JRuby does that quite well. > > And so does Glade+Ruby/GNOME2 One difference is that Java comes with Swing built-in, so if you can run a JRuby app you can run a JRuby+Swing app and not have to install anything else. So, from a JRuby perspective, it has a built-in GUI toolkit that allows for GUI apps that Just Work out of the box. That said, I caught the evening talk by Dave Thomas here at RubyConf08, and he put forth several ideas on plausible forks of Ruby. (If you weren't here, watch for the ConFreaks video; I can't do justice to why he was advocating forking Ruby. Well worth watching when it becomes available.) An interesting Ruby fork would be one devoted to GUI development. Pick a widget set, bundle it in, maybe add some stuff to make things more intuitive, and have Guiby. -- James Britt www.happycamperstudios.com - Wicked Cool Coding www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff