From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-09-29T06:29:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk or mod_ruby or what ?? (ot)


"Jon Dowland" <jon@frag.ord> wrote in message
news:Xns9297C6A9D5FE7jonfradorg@193.38.113.46...
> Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com> wrote in
> news:20020926180906.GD6382@swordfish:
>
> > So anyway, I agree there should be a tutorial, and I'm more likely to
> > actually do something about it if I don't have to do all the work
> > myself. What role would you see yourself taking on this project?
>
> I once asked in <something>.java.advocacy if someone could demonstrate a
> GUI java app that wasn't painfully slow... I was recommended two, one of
> which was jEdit, which I have since tried and its just as slow as
> anything else I've seen

Eclipse isn't painfully slow - it's just painfully large. 18MB compressed
download no source, no java dev. support. Just the eclipse basic framework.
(But then MS Dev.Studio is also large).

Mikkel