From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-19T09:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla

In article <83173408.0403181421.141e3740@posting.google.com>,
Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com> wrote:
>paul vudmaska <paul@vudmaska.com> wrote in message
>news:<4059CE42.7090702@vudmaska.com>...
>> On the other hand, using js for this has never struck
>> me as needing to be rubied.
>
>Javascript scales really poorly, so restricting the application code
>to Javascript means that XUL will always be marginalized.  Ruby scales
>much, much better, so having a Ruby interpreter replacement for
>Javascript would benefit Mozilla nearly as much as being able to write
>GUIs in XUL would benefit Ruby.

Also, I could be wrong as I haven't had to deal much with JS, but doesn't 
JS hide the guns&knives meaning that it doesn't let you do certain things 
like copy files around, etc.?

For example, I don't think you could (using JS) get a file from a 
particular website and then copy it to some specific directory on your 
machine, for example. (but I could be wrong)  

>
>That said, Python would be a good alternative, but I'd (selfishly)
>much rather see Ruby take this role.
>

Same here.

Phil