Re: [rgui-dev] RE: Backend Debouch

[Laurent Julliard]

Rich Kilmer wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I really don't think there is a huge installed base using ANY Ruby GUI
> bindings.  Even with Fox on Win32 the damn thing dies if you try and
> start and run another Ruby thread.

Eeeuhhh, it works fine on Linux :-)))

> I do _a lot_ (as in my day job) of
> Ruby development and GUI stuff just has not been needed (yet) but going
> forward I believe it is critical to the success of Ruby as a language to
> build solutions in.

Cannot agree more. Actually if we manage to have an SWT like thing for 
Ruby that really works, this is going to make a big difference with 
other languages like Perl, Python and others...

> I think that mirroring the SWT approach would yield you a much greater
> degree of control to build a Ruby-way API than other approaches such as
> Fox, Wx, GTK, etc since the main principal is to keep all the logic in
> the higher level language (and out of C).  This will allow us to build
> really nice, pure Ruby logic above those low level primitives.

Yes, yes, yes!

Laurent

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