Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code

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Damien Pollet
Fri, Oct 29, 2010 1:27 PM

On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:19, Serge Stinckwich wrote:

But comparing to Ruby, there is no standard UI in Ruby and this not
really annoying for the people, because they deploy their application
on the web.

Yes, but Ruby has really nice bindings to at least GTK and Cocoa. Applications developed using that look just like their C / ObjC counterparts, they do not pop an image window, etc

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Damien Pollet
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On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:19, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > But comparing to Ruby, there is no standard UI in Ruby and this not > really annoying for the people, because they deploy their application > on the web. Yes, but Ruby has really nice bindings to at least GTK and Cocoa. Applications developed using that look just like their C / ObjC counterparts, they do not pop an image window, etc -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet
PB
Paolo Bonzini
Fri, Oct 29, 2010 2:13 PM

On 10/29/2010 03:27 PM, Damien Pollet wrote:

But comparing to Ruby, there is no standard UI in Ruby and this
not really annoying for the people, because they deploy their
application on the web.

Yes, but Ruby has really nice bindings to at least GTK and Cocoa.
Applications developed using that look just like their C / ObjC
counterparts, they do not pop an image window, etc

They're not used very much though.  I see more Shoes than GTK with Ruby
I think.  There's also a price to pay---GNU Smalltalk has nice GTK+
bindings, but when they crash in the bowels of GtkTreeModel you're left
alone in gdb. :)

Paolo

On 10/29/2010 03:27 PM, Damien Pollet wrote: >>> But comparing to Ruby, there is no standard UI in Ruby and this >>> not really annoying for the people, because they deploy their >>> application on the web. > > Yes, but Ruby has really nice bindings to at least GTK and Cocoa. > Applications developed using that look just like their C / ObjC > counterparts, they do not pop an image window, etc They're not used very much though. I see more Shoes than GTK with Ruby I think. There's also a price to pay---GNU Smalltalk has nice GTK+ bindings, but when they crash in the bowels of GtkTreeModel you're left alone in gdb. :) Paolo