From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-16T02:14:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7336] Re: A Java Developer's Wish List for Ruby

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:7330] A Java Developer's Wish List for Ruby"
    on 00/12/16, Richard A.Schulman <RichardASchulman@att.net> writes:

|Java isn't as elegant as Ruby, however. Nor is it really
|suitable as a language that one can use to incrementally
|transform a prototype into a production system. My wish
|therefore would be that Ruby could:
|
|(1) be rebuilt with native UCS-2 support;

I'm not going to choose USC-2.  UCS-2 is obsolete.
But I'm going to add M17N feature to the next version Ruby.
The future Ruby should handle Unicode as well as other encodings.

|(2) offer an integrated GUI competitive with Java's Swing.

There's still no standard GUI toolkit.  We're trying on it.
But it may take time.  Stay tuned.

							matz.