From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2000-12-21T09:57:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7820] Re: GUIs for Rubies

"Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>Mike Wilson wrote:
[...]
>FWIW, on a somewhat related tangent, C. Laird's Jan. DDJ article discusses
>several Perl/<GUI> ports. My (very) superficial impression from skimming
>over it is that Perl/Tk gets by far the widest usage, with Perl/GTK+
>showing very strong growth. Perl/wxWindows seems to be
>incomplete/languishing due to lack of serious development support (which I
>find surprising, given the huge size of the Perl community, plus the fact
>that wxWindows seems to be the type of GUI system that you and
>presumably/supposedly most application users would prefer), and Perl/Qt is
>too new to say much about.

Perl's lack of stable threading makes it unsuitable for all
but the simplest GUI applications.  Tk is a good fit for
very simple applications.

Cheers,
Ben
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