From: David Garamond Date: 2004-03-03T22:49:44+09:00 Subject: Re: Mozilla gets support for other client-side languages in the future, how about Ruby? Erik Terpstra wrote: > http://www.mozilla.org/events/dev-day-feb-2004/mozilla-futures/ > > Python support is already planned. It would be really cool to be able to > develop XUL or Intranet web applications with client side Ruby as well. Indeed. I'm waiting for the days where I can write cross-platform application using just Ruby and YAML. No Javascript please (Python is better, but it's definitely not Ruby). No XML please. (XUL will be layered so we can write descriptions using YAML). Did I say No XML please? It's really quite painful right now creating "regular" desktop applications using Ruby, especially on Win32 (no OS threads, no mature+complete GUI toolkit). Aided with future goodies like native win32 PostgreSQL and Parrot/Ruby2 VM, I think I'll have no traces of inferiority complex when being around my fellow .NET/Mono junkies :-) -- dave