From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-03-14T11:59:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ANN] wxRuby 0.2.1 has been released!

Quoteing lists@zara.6.isreserved.com, on Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:10:19AM +0900:
> Markus Jais wrote:
> >very cool. 
> >thanks for your work. let's hope that it will be as successful as wxPython.
> 
> I hate to say it but, as long as we're still using Ruby 1.x, it probably 
> won't be. Sometimes we just need real/OS threads, which won't be present 
> until Ruby2.

I don't know much about gui programming, and nothing about wxWidgets.
Could you explain why native threads are so important?

Just curious,
Sam